Ibex
דִּישֹׁןStrong’s H1788dishon (di-shon)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Dishon is the Hebrew word usually translated “ibex”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.”
Meaning
- A clean animalpygarg, a kind of antelope or gazelle · perhaps mountain goat · perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown
How it's translated
- and an ibex 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
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Hebrew dictionary
דִּישֹׁן dishon · ibex
1) a clean animal, 1a) pygarg, a kind of antelope or gazelle 1b) perhaps mountain goat 1c) perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ibex” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
IBEX, noun
[Latin]
The wild goat of the genus Capra, which is said to be the stock of the tame goat. It has large knotty horns reclining on its back, is of a yellowish color, and its beard is black. It inhabits the Alps.
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.