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title: יַחְמוּר — roebuck · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יַחְמוּר (3180), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: roebuck. BDB 1906: roebuck. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יַחְמוּר

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«יַחְמוּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **roebuck** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 3180 · **BDB:** יַחְמוּר

### Glosses

a.roe-deer (1); roe-deer (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

roebuck [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3180/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

roebuck [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3180/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] roebuck (Sam. יחמור, Syriac ܝܰܚܡܘܽܪܳܐ, 𝔗 יַחְמוּרָא v. HomNS 392 (and 333), LagBN 127; name from reddish colour?)—as edible Dt 14:5; 1 K 5:3;—on identif. with roebuck, v. TristrProc. Zool. Soc. London, May 2, 1876 Conder Tent Work, 1887, p. 91.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (12 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יַחְמוּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3180/), 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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[1 Kings 5:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.3/)

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עֲשָׂרָ֨ה בָקָ֜ר בְּרִאִ֗ים וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים בָּקָ֛ר רְעִ֖י וּמֵ֣אָה צֹ֑אן לְ֠בַד מֵֽאַיָּ֤ל וּצְבִי֙ וְיַחְמ֔וּר וּבַרְבֻּרִ֖ים אֲבוּסִֽים׃

*Word for word:* ten cattle fat and twenty cattle pasture and one.hundred sheep apart from deer and gazelle and roe-deer and birds fattened

*JPS 1917:* ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl.

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