45 Bible Verses about Deer
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he made my feet like the deer's, and on my high places he makes me stand.
Yahweh, my Lord, [is] my strength; he makes my feet like the deer; he causes me to walk on my high places. To the choirmaster with stringed instruments.
He makes my feet like a doe deer, and on my high places he has set me.
So now, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt food for me.
Your two breasts [are] like two fawns, twins of a gazelle that feed among the lilies.
Save yourself like a gazelle from a hand, or like a bird from the hand of a fowler.
Then [the] lame shall leap like the deer, and [the] tongue of [the] dumb shall sing for joy, for waters shall break forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
"But {whenever you desire} you may slaughter, and you may eat meat according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given to you in all [of] your {towns}; the unclean and the clean may eat it [just] as [they would] the gazelle and as the deer.
And this shall happen: like a hunted gazelle or sheep {with none to gather them}, they will each turn to his [own] people, and they will each flee to his [own] land.
[She is] a deer of love and a doe of grace; may her breasts satisfy you {always}; by her love may you be intoxicated continually.
My beloved is like a gazelle or {a young stag}. Look! {He is} standing behind our wall, gazing {through} the window, looking {through} the lattice.
And Isaac loved Esau because {he could eat of his game}, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
He goes after her suddenly; like an ox to the slaughter he goes, and like a stag to the instruction of a fool,
The voice of Yahweh causes deer to give birth and strips [the] forests bare. And at his temple all in it say, "Glory!"
Surely [just] as the gazelle and the deer is eaten, so [both] the unclean and the clean together may eat it.
Flee, my beloved! {Be like a gazelle} or {a young stag} upon {the perfumed mountains}!
In your {towns} you shall eat it, the unclean and the clean together [may eat it], [just] as [they eat] the gazelle and as [they eat] the deer.
For even [the] doe in the field gives birth and forsakes [her young], because there is no green growth.
All her majesty has gone away from the daughter of Zion; her princes have become like young stags that have not found pasture; they have gone away without strength, before the pursuer.
deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep.
"Do you know [the] time when [the] goats of [the] rocks give birth? Do you observe [the] doe deer's giving birth?
My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my relatives stand afar off.
And any animal having a split hoof and [so] {a dividing of the hoof into two parts} {and that chews the cud} among the animals--that [animal] you may eat.
And a wolf shall {stay} with a lamb, and a leopard shall lie down with a kid, and a calf and a lion and a fatling together {as a small boy leads} them.
Only, be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat.
until an arrow pierces his {entrails}, like a bird rushing into a snare, but he does not know that {it will cost him his life}.
Now in Joppa there was a certain female disciple {named} Tabitha (which translated means "Dorcas"). She was full of good deeds and charitable giving which she was constantly doing.
And David said to Saul, "Your servant has been a shepherd of the flock for his father. If the lion or the bear would come and carry off a sheep from the group,
I adjure you, {O maidens of Jerusalem}, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, do not arouse or awaken love until it pleases!
The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel. Now Asahel [was] swift with his feet as one of the gazelles which [is] in the open field.
And from the Gadites, valiant mighty warriors, {soldiers fit for war}, expert with shield and spear, defected to David at the fortress toward the wilderness. And {they had faces like lions} [and were] swift as gazelles upon the mountains.
ten stall-fed oxen and twenty pasture-fed oxen and a hundred sheep, besides deer and buck gazelles and roebucks and well-fed fowls.
But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise, with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like {fattened calves}.
then you shall take your pleasure in Yahweh, and I will make you ride upon [the] heights of [the] earth, and I will feed you the heritage of Jacob your ancestor, for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken."
She persuades him with the greatness of her teachings; with her smooth lips she compels him.
He too prepared tasty food and brought [it] to his father. And he said to his father, "Let my father arise and eat from the wild game of his son, that you may bless me."
From Thematic Bible
Animals » Names of » Deer
deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep.
The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel. Now Asahel [was] swift with his feet as one of the gazelles which [is] in the open field.
He makes my feet like a doe deer, and on my high places he has set me.
And from the Gadites, valiant mighty warriors, {soldiers fit for war}, expert with shield and spear, defected to David at the fortress toward the wilderness. And {they had faces like lions} [and were] swift as gazelles upon the mountains.
Deer » Fleetness of
The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel. Now Asahel [was] swift with his feet as one of the gazelles which [is] in the open field.
And from the Gadites, valiant mighty warriors, {soldiers fit for war}, expert with shield and spear, defected to David at the fortress toward the wilderness. And {they had faces like lions} [and were] swift as gazelles upon the mountains.
Save yourself like a gazelle from a hand, or like a bird from the hand of a fowler.
Then [the] lame shall leap like the deer, and [the] tongue of [the] dumb shall sing for joy, for waters shall break forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
Flee, my beloved! {Be like a gazelle} or {a young stag} upon {the perfumed mountains}!
Deer » Designated among the ceremonially clean animals, to be eaten
deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep.
"But {whenever you desire} you may slaughter, and you may eat meat according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given to you in all [of] your {towns}; the unclean and the clean may eat it [just] as [they would] the gazelle and as the deer.
Deer » Surefootedness of
He makes my feet like a doe deer, and on my high places he has set me.
Deer » Provided for solomon's household
ten stall-fed oxen and twenty pasture-fed oxen and a hundred sheep, besides deer and buck gazelles and roebucks and well-fed fowls.
Deer » Coloring of
For even [the] doe in the field gives birth and forsakes [her young], because there is no green growth.
Deer » Gentleness of
[She is] a deer of love and a doe of grace; may her breasts satisfy you {always}; by her love may you be intoxicated continually.
Mountains » Abounded with » Deer
And from the Gadites, valiant mighty warriors, {soldiers fit for war}, expert with shield and spear, defected to David at the fortress toward the wilderness. And {they had faces like lions} [and were] swift as gazelles upon the mountains.
The voice of my beloved! Look! Here {he} comes leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills!