Deer
אַיָּלStrong’s H0354ayyal (ay-yal)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ayyal is the Hebrew word usually translated “deer”, “like deer” and “from deer”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.”
Meaning
- Stag, deer, hart
How it's translated
- the deer 4
- and like deer 2
- like deer 2
- a deer 1
- from deer 1
- like a deer 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 4
- Song of Solomon 3
- 1 Kings 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
- Lamentations 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 12:22Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
- Deuteronomy 14:5The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
- Deuteronomy 15:22Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
- 1 Kings 4:23Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
- Psalms 42:1As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
- Song of Solomon 2:9My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
Hebrew dictionary
אַיָּל ayyal · deer
stag, deer, hart
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “deer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEER, noun
Sing. And plural [Gr. A wild beast. The primary sense is simply roving, wild, untamed; hence, a wild beast.] A quadruped of the genus Cervus, of several species, as the stag, the fallow deer the roe-buck, the rane or rane-deer, etc. These animals are wild and hunted in the forest, or kept in parks. Their flesh called venison, is deemed excellent food.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.