H3180

יַחְמוּר

yach.murH:N-M

roebuck

1) roebuck 1a) a kind of deer, reddish in colour 1b) perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

יַחְמוּר noun [masculine] roebuck (Samaritan יחמור, Syriac ᵑ7 יַחְמוּרָא see HomNS 392 (and 339), LagBN 127; name from reddish colour ?) — edible Deut 14:5; 1Kgs 5:3 — on identification with roebuck, see TristrProc. Zool. Soc. London, May 2, 1876 ConderTent Work, 1887, p.91.


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