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title: זֶמֶר — mountain-sheep · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זֶמֶר (2169), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: mountain-sheep. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זֶמֶר

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«זֶמֶר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **mountain-sheep** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2169 · **BDB:** זֶ֫מֶר

### Glosses

a.mountain.sheep (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

mountain-sheep [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2169/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a certain animal allowed as food, most prob. some kind of mountain-sheep or-goat (𝔖 ܐܪܢܐ) וָזָמֶ֑ר Dt 14:5. (AV RV chamois: but see TristramDB 2. s.v., who points out that this is not a native of any Bible land.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זֶמֶר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2169/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 14:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.5/)

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אַיָּ֥ל וּצְבִ֖י וְיַחְמ֑וּר וְאַקּ֥וֹ וְדִישֹׁ֖ן וּתְא֥וֹ וָזָֽמֶר׃

*Word for word:* a.deer and a.gazelle and a.roe-deer and a.wild.goat and an.ibex and an.antelope and a.mountain.sheep

*JPS 1917:* the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the mountain-sheep.

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