Fallow Deer
Septuagint, Alexandrinus manuscript, boubalos, the Antilope bubalis. Hebrew yachmur, from chamar "red." A clean animal (Deu 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).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible on Fallow Deer
This word occurs in the AV anion" the clean animals (Dt 14'), and in the list of game furnished for Solomon's daily table (1 K 4^). In each list 'ayyAl, zdlti, and yahmilr occur in the same order. The first is correctly translated, both in AV and ItV, hart (see Hart). The second is incorrectly tr. in AV roebuck, and correctly in RV gazelle (see GAZELLE). The third is incorrectly tr. in AV falloio-deer, and, we think, correctly in RV roebuck (see Roebuck). G. K. Post.
Smith's Bible Dictionary on Fallow Deer
(called fallow from its reddish-brown color) (Heb. yachmur). The Hebrew word, which is mentioned only in (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.
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