Deer
7 lines · 11 passages
- Also called, FALLOW DEER, HART, HIND, ROEBUCK
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Designated among the ceremonially clean animals, to be eaten
Deut 12:15; 14:5
15 Notwithstanding 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 12:155 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
Deuteronomy 14:5 -
Provided for Solomon’s household
1 Kgs 4:23
23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
1 Kings 4:23 -
Fleetness of
2 Sam 2:18; 1 Chr 12:8; Prov 6:5; Song 8:14; Isa 35:6
18 And 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 2:188 And 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 12:85 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Proverbs 6:514 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Song of Solomon 8:146 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Isaiah 35:6 -
Surefootedness of
2 Sam 22:34
34 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places.
2 Samuel 22:34 -
Gentleness of
Prov 5:19
19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
Proverbs 5:19 -
Coloring of
Jer 14:5
5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
Jeremiah 14:5
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
