Bible Encyclopedias
Fallow-Deer

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(יִחְמוּר, yachmur'; Sept. βούβαλος [but δορκάς in 1 Kings], Vulg. bubalus), mentioned among the beasts that may be eaten in Deuteronomy 14:5, and among the provisions for Solomon's table in 1 Kings 4:23 [Hebrews 5:3]. There are three animals of the Cervidae family with which different writers have identified it. (See ZOOLOGY).

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