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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'Only, with all the desire of thy soul thou dost sacrifice, and hast eaten flesh according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which He hath given to thee, in all thy gates; the unclean and the clean do eat it, as of the roe, and as of the hart.
only, as the roe and the hart is eaten, so dost thou eat it; the unclean and the clean doth alike eat it.
hart, and roe, and fallow deer, and wild goat, and pygarg, and wild ox, and chamois;
within thy gates thou dost eat it, the unclean and the clean alike, as the roe, and as the hart.
And Saul taketh three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and goeth to seek David and his men, on the front of the rocks of the wild goats,
And there are there three sons of Zeruiah, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel, and Asahel is light on his feet, as one of the roes which are in the field,
Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark!
The high hills are for wild goats, Rocks are a refuge for conies,
A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.
My beloved is like to a roe, Or to a young one of the harts. Lo, this -- he is standing behind our wall, Looking from the windows, Blooming from the lattice.
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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'Only, with all the desire of thy soul thou dost sacrifice, and hast eaten flesh according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which He hath given to thee, in all thy gates; the unclean and the clean do eat it, as of the roe, and as of the hart.
only, as the roe and the hart is eaten, so dost thou eat it; the unclean and the clean doth alike eat it.
The Roebuck, O Israel, On thy high places is wounded; How have the mighty fallen!
And there are there three sons of Zeruiah, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel, and Asahel is light on his feet, as one of the roes which are in the field,
A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.
My beloved is like to a roe, Or to a young one of the harts. Lo, this -- he is standing behind our wall, Looking from the windows, Blooming from the lattice.
Till the day doth break forth, And the shadows have fled away, Turn, be like, my beloved, To a roe, or to a young one of the harts, On the mountains of separation!
Thy two breasts are as two fawns, Twins of a roe, that are feeding among lilies.
And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, (which interpreted, is called Dorcas,) this woman was full of good works and kind acts that she was doing;