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H2169 זֶמֶר (zemer) zeh'-mer
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

apparently from 2167 or 2168; a gazelle (from its lightly touching the ground)

KJV Usage: chamois

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

זֶ֫מֶר (ze.mer) — mountain goat. 1) mountain sheep, mountain goat, moufflon, gazelle, chamois (meaning uncertain) 1a) a certain animal allowed as food (specific species uncertain) 1b) perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun m

Wild Animals

mountain sheep, deer exact meaning unknown; probably: = wild sheep, wild goat or deer; ► clean and can therefore be eaten

DEU 14:5

1 DEU 14:5 RSV NIV NJPS NJB NRSV ESV "mountain sheep" REB "rock-goat"

Enio R. Mueller

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[זֶ֫מֶר] n.[m.] a certain animal allowed as food, most prob. some kind of mountain-sheep or -goat Dt 14:5. ref

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