Septuagint, Alexandrinus manuscript, boubalos, the Antilope bubalis. Hebrew yachmur, from chamar "red." A clean animal (De 14:5). Used at Solomon's table (1Ki 4:23). The Cervus dama, of a reddish color (as its name yachmur implies), shedding its horns yearly (Oedmann). Gosse makes it the Addax antelope, a beast of chase represented in the old Egyptian sculptures.

Coarse, and approaching to the bovine race, of reddish head and neck, white across the face, the forehead and throat with black hair, the rest of the body of whitish gray. Smith's Bible Dictionary Append. (as Septuagint), the wild ox (bekker el wash) of N. Africa, the Alkelaphus bubalis, an antelope resembling the calf and the stag, the size of the latter. Sir V. Brooke, however, has decided that a specimen sent him of the Bedouin yahmur, from Carmel, is the Cervus capreolus or ordinary roebuck (Palestine Exploration Quarterly Statement, July, 1876).

yachmur. What species of deer is referred to under this name is not known. The only description of it in scripture is that it was a clean animal that the Israelites might eat, and that it was supplied to the table of Solomon. De 14:5; 1Ki 4:23. The Hebrew name seems to imply that it was some deer of a 'red' colour.

(called fallow from its reddish-brown color) (Heb. yachmur). The Hebrew word, which is mentioned only in

De 14:5

and 1Kin 4:23 probably denotes the Alcelaphus bubalis (the bubale or wild cow) of Barbary and North Africa. It is about the size of a stag, and lives in herds. It is almost exactly like the European roebuck, and is valued for its venison.