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Comments: Black buck male and females At Nannaj Near Solapur, Maharashtra

 

Credit: מינוזיג - MinoZig

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Comments: Dorcas gazelles. Ezuz, Israel

 

Antelope — The word, first applied as a qualification to the gazelle, on account of the lustre and soft expression of its eye, has become the name of a genus of ruminant quadrupeds intermediate between the deer and the goat. Four species are mentioned in the Bible:

  1. דִּישׁוֹן, dîshon - Strongs: H1788 (D.V. pygarg; Deuteronomy 14:5), commonly identified with the Addax (Addax nasomaculatus);
  2. צְּבִ֖י tsebhî - Strongs: H6643 (Deuteronomy 12:15, etc.; D.V. roe) or gazelle, Dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas);
  3. תְא֥וֹ, the'ô - Strongs: H8377 (Deuteronomy 14:5; D.V. wild goat; Isaiah 51:20, D.V. wild ox), which seems to be the bubal hartebeest (†Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus)); and
  4. יַחְמ֑וּר, yákhmûr - Strongs: H3180 (Deuteronomy 14:5), the name of which is given by the Arabs to the roebuck (Capreolus capreolus) of Northern Syria and to the Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx)) (the white antelope,) of the desert.

Verses:

  • Deuteronomy 14:5
  • Deuteronomy 12:15
  • Isaiah 51:20
Bibliography Information
Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​a/antelope.html. 2024.
 
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