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Antelope

תְּאוֹStrong’s H8377

teo (te-o)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Teo is the Hebrew word usually translated “antelope” and “like an antelope of”. 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.”
Deuteronomy 14:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. Wild ox, antelope, oryxperhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown
How it's translated
  • and an antelope 1
  • like an antelope of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Deuteronomy 1
  • Isaiah 1

2 books in all.

Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary

תְּאוֹ teo · antelope

1) wild ox, antelope, oryx 1a) 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 “antelope” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

AN'TELOPE, noun

[Gr. resembling a deer.]

    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.