Reference: Roe
Easton
(14.) (Heb tsebi), properly the gazelle (Arab. ghazal), permitted for food (De 14:5; comp. De 12:15,22; 15:22; 1Ki 4:23), noted for its swiftness and beauty and grace of form (2Sa 2:18; 1Ch 12:8; Song 2:9; 7:3; 8:14).
(15.) The gazelle (Gazella dorcas, Illustration: Gazelles) is found in great numbers in Palestine. "Among the gray hills of Galilee it is still 'the roe upon the mountains of Bether,' and I have seen a little troop of gazelles feeding on the Mount of Olives close to Jerusalem itself" (Tristram).
(16.) The Hebrew word ('ayyalah) in Pr 5:19 thus rendered (R.V., "doe"), is properly the "wild she-goat," the mountain goat, the ibex. (See 1Sa 24:2; Ps 104:18; Job 39:1.)
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"However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.
Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.
You shall eat it within your towns. The unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a deer.
Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the Wildgoats' Rocks.
And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was as swift of foot as a wild gazelle.
"Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does?
The high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, looking through the lattice.
Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
Fausets
ROE or ROEBUCK. Yaalah, "chamois" (Pr 5:19) or ibex, the female of the wild goat. Tsebi (masculine), tsebiah (feminine), from whence Tabitha (Greek Dorkas), "loving and beloved": Ac 9:36. The beautiful antelope or gazelle, the Antelope dorcas and Antelope Arabica. Slender, graceful, shy, and timid; the image of feminine loveliness (Song 4:5; 2:9,17; 8:14).
The eye is large, soft, liquid, languishing, and of deepest black; image of swift footedness (2Sa 1:19; 2:18; 1Ch 12:8). Israel ate the gazelle in the wilderness, and the flesh of flocks and herds only when offered in sacrifice; but in Canaan they might eat the flesh, "even as the gazelle" (De 12:15,22); Isaac's venison was front it (Genesis 27). The valley of Gerar and the Beersheba plains are still frequented by it. Egyptian paintings represent it hunted by hounds.
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"However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.
Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.
"Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was as swift of foot as a wild gazelle.
a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, looking through the lattice.
Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a young stag on cleft mountains.
Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that graze among the lilies.
Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.