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Roe, Roebuck

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: R By: James P. Boyd

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(animal). A beautiful fleet animal, probably the roe-deer of Western Asia; but associated with antelope and gazelle (2 Sam. 2:18¹⁸And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe. (2 Samuel 2:18); 1 Chron. 12:8⁸And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains; (1 Chronicles 12:8); Song of Sol. 2:17; 8:14¹⁷Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether. (Song of Solomon 2:17)
¹⁴Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. (Song of Solomon 8:14)).

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