Category:Roe

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Roe - (Heb. tsebi ), properly the gazelle (Arab. ghazal ), permitted for food (Deuteronomy 14:5; compare Deuteronomy 12:15, Deuteronomy 12:22; Deuteronomy 15:22; 1 Kings 4:23), noted for its swiftness and beauty and grace of form (2 Samuel 2:18; 1 Chronicles 12:8; Song of Songs 2:9; Song of Songs 7:3; Song of Songs 8:14). The gazelle (Gazella dorcas) is found in great numbers in Palestine. "Among the gray hills of Galilee it is still 'the roe upon the mountains of Bether,' and I have seen a little troop of gazelles feeding on the Mount of Olives close to Jerusalem itself" (Tristram). The Hebrew word ( 'ayyalah ) in Proverbs 5:19 thus rendered (R.V., "doe"), is properly the "wild she-goat," the mountain goat, the ibex. (See 1 Samuel 24:2; Psalms 104:18; Job 39:1.)