Roebuck
יַחְמוּרStrong’s H3180yachmur (yach-mur)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yachmur is the Hebrew word usually translated “roe-deer”. It appears in 2 verses 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
- Roebucka kind of deer, reddish in colour · perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown
How it's translated
- and a roe-deer 1
- and roe-deer 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- 1 Kings 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
יַחְמוּר yachmur · roebuck
1) roebuck 1a) a kind of deer, reddish in colour 1b) 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 “roebuck” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ROEBUCK, noun
- A species of deer, the Cervus capreolus, with erect cylindrical branched horns, forked at the summit.
- Roe, the female of the hart.
All definitions and other forms of “roebuck”
ROE, noun
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.