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# זֶמֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2169

**mountain-sheep** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

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

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**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.)

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)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a mountain sheep (1).

## In the verses

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

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.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2169.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2169/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).