H1788

דִּישֹׁן

di.shonH:N-M

ibex

1) a clean animal, 1a) pygarg, a kind of antelope or gazelle 1b) perhaps mountain goat 1c) perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

I. דִּישֹׁן noun [masculine] a clean animal, ᵐ5 πύγαργος compare ᵑ9; hence AV RV & most pygarg, a kind of antelope or gazelle, compare Di Lev 11:2f.; perhaps rather mountain-goat, Hom^{NS 391} compare Ethiopic version [ᵑ8̈]; only Deut 14:5 — (Hom^l.c. derives from √ דושׁ with kindred meaning of spring, leap & compare Assyrian daššu; so already Dl^{S i. 54}).

1 occurrence

Deuteronomy 14:5