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# roebuck

noun (roebucks)

«roebuck» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A roebuck is a male roe deer, a small wild deer of the woods, with short antlers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roebuck/#m1)

### In the lessons

a wild animal of the forest, hunted or seen in country scenes

### Examples

- A roebuck stepped out from the trees. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roebuck/#x1)
- The hunter found a roebuck in the wood. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roebuck/#x2)
- The roebuck ran off among the ferns. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roebuck/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

In the Torah it is one of the animals clean enough to eat.

**Interpretation.** The rabbis counted it among the kosher wild animals, which chew the cud and have split hooves.

### Examples

- the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the mountain-sheep. (Torah DEU.14.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roebuck/#x1)
- ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl. (Prophets 1KI.5.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roebuck/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «roebuck» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roebuck/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«roebuck» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/roebuck.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «roebuck» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/roebuck/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«roebuck» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/roebuck.html) on Mova free.