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Thoughts And Things Of The Bible --
Chamois
With respect to the word "chamois…"
Only in Deut. 14:5 (Heb. zemer), an animal of the deer or gazelle
species. It bears this Hebrew name from its leaping or springing. The
animal intended is probably the wild sheep (Ovis tragelephus), which is
still found in Sinai and in the broken ridges of Stony Arabia. The LXX.
and Vulgate render the word by camelopardus, i.e., the giraffe; but this
is an animal of Central Africa, and is not at all known in Syria.
Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries
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