roe

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(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)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

The word tsebi is supposed to refer to some species of the gazelle. In the Levitical economy it was ranked with the clean animals (Deut. 12:15,22¹⁵Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart. (Deuteronomy 12:15)
²²Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike. (Deuteronomy 12:22)). The gazelle is graceful and elegant: three times in the Song of Solomon the bride compares the bridegroom to a roe; and the bridegroom compares the breasts of the bride to two young roes (Song of Sol. 2:7,9,17⁷I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please. (Song of Solomon 2:7)
⁹My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice. (Song of Solomon 2:9)
¹⁷Until 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); Song of Sol. 3:5⁵I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please. (Song of Solomon 3:5); Song of Sol. 4:5⁵Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies. (Song of Solomon 4:5); Song of Sol. 7:3³Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins. (Song of Solomon 7:3); Song of Sol. 8:14¹⁴Make 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)). The Gazella dorcas and Gazella Arabica are found in Syria. The Arabs hunt them by a falcon and a greyhound. Repeated attacks upon the head of the gazelle by the bird bewilder it, so that it becomes a prey to the hound, which is trained for the purpose. Others are caught in pits, to which they are driven by the hunters.

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Mountain Gazelle—Israel

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Number:

6646 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Transliteration:

tsbiyah

Phonic:

tseb-ee-yaw’

Meaning:

feminine of 6643; a female gazelle

KJV Usage:

roe