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== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_35027" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_35027" /> == | ||
<p> Ζemer , from zaamar to leap. [[Allowed]] as clean food (Deuteronomy 14:5). The giraffe according to Gosse, (from the Arabic version and the Septuagint). The objection is, the giraffe is not a native of Palestine; but it is of Nubia, and may have been of the [[Arabian]] peninsula at the Exodus. [[Clearly]] it is not the chamois found only on high peaks of the Alps, auras, and Caucasus. It may be some other species of antelope. Colossians Smith suggests the aoudad mountain sheep. The [[Syriac]] has "the mountain goat." </p> | <p> Ζemer , from zaamar to leap. [[Allowed]] as clean food ( Deuteronomy 14:5). The giraffe according to Gosse, (from the Arabic version and the Septuagint). The objection is, the giraffe is not a native of Palestine; but it is of Nubia, and may have been of the [[Arabian]] peninsula at the Exodus. [[Clearly]] it is not the chamois found only on high peaks of the Alps, auras, and Caucasus. It may be some other species of antelope. Colossians Smith suggests the aoudad mountain sheep. The [[Syriac]] has "the mountain goat." </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_50326" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_50326" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> CHAMOIS </strong> ( <em> zemer </em> , Deuteronomy 14:5 ). The tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of <em> zemer </em> as ‘chamois’ in EV [Note: English Version.] and as ‘camelopard,’ <em> i.e. </em> giraffe, in LXX [Note: Septuagint.] , are both certainly incorrect, as neither of these animals occurs in Palestine. Tristram suggests the wild sheep, <em> Ovis tragelaphus </em> , an animal about 3 feet high with long curved horns. It is well known to the Bedouln. </p> <p> E. W. G. Masterman. </p> | <p> <strong> CHAMOIS </strong> ( <em> zemer </em> , Deuteronomy 14:5 ). The tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of <em> zemer </em> as ‘chamois’ in EV [Note: English Version.] and as ‘camelopard,’ <em> i.e. </em> giraffe, in LXX [Note: Septuagint.] , are both certainly incorrect, as neither of these animals occurs in Palestine. Tristram suggests the wild sheep, <em> Ovis tragelaphus </em> , an animal about 3 feet high with long curved horns. It is well known to the Bedouln. </p> <p> E. W. G. Masterman. </p> | ||
== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_99443" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_99443" /> == | ||
<p> (1): (n.) A small species of antelope (Rupicapra tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase. </p> <p> (2): (n.) A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; - called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leather. See Shammy. </p> | <p> (1): (n.) A small species of antelope (Rupicapra tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase. </p> <p> (2): (n.) A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; - called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leather. See Shammy. </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_65515" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_65515" /> == | ||
<p> The [[Hebrew]] word is <i> zemer, </i> Deuteronomy 14:5 , which is held to signify 'leaper,' and would thus suit the chamois; but this animal is unknown in [[Palestine]] and is supposed never to have existed there. It has been suggested that the animal specified is the <i> aoudad, </i> the mountain sheep; others judge the wild goat to be referred to. </p> | <p> The [[Hebrew]] word is <i> zemer, </i> Deuteronomy 14:5 , which is held to signify 'leaper,' and would thus suit the chamois; but this animal is unknown in [[Palestine]] and is supposed never to have existed there. It has been suggested that the animal specified is the <i> aoudad, </i> the mountain sheep; others judge the wild goat to be referred to. </p> | ||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_71972" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_71972" /> == | ||
<p> Chamois. (Often pronounced 'shame'). The translation of the Hebrew, zemer, in Deuteronomy 14:5. But the translation is incorrect; for there is no evidence that the chamois have ever been seen in Palestine or the Lebanon. It is probable that some mountain sheep is intended. </p> | <p> Chamois. (Often pronounced 'shame'). The translation of the Hebrew, zemer, in Deuteronomy 14:5. But the translation is incorrect; for there is no evidence that the chamois have ever been seen in Palestine or the Lebanon. It is probable that some mountain sheep is intended. </p> | ||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15824" /> == | == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15824" /> == | ||
<p> Not the well-known mountain goat of southern Europe, but probably a variety of wild sheep, resembling a goat, and still found in [[Arabia]] Petraea, Deuteronomy 14:5 . </p> | <p> Not the well-known mountain goat of southern Europe, but probably a variety of wild sheep, resembling a goat, and still found in [[Arabia]] Petraea, Deuteronomy 14:5 . </p> | ||
== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_69873" /> == | == People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_69873" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> Chamois ( sham'my). Deuteronomy 14:5. A species of wild sheep. </p> | ||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_39405" /> == | == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_39405" /> == | ||
<i> rupicapra </i> Deuteronomy 14:5[[Animals]] | <i> rupicapra </i> Deuteronomy 14:5[[Animals]] | ||
== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_58787" /> == | == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_58787" /> == | ||
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== Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_30896" /> == | == Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_30896" /> == | ||
Deuteronomy 14:5 | Deuteronomy 14:5 | ||
== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15417" /> == | == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15417" /> == | ||
<p> Chamois (). Some suppose that the animal meant is the Camelopard, others the Elk. But it is plain that the [[Mosaic]] enumeration of clean animals would not include such as were totally out of the reach of the Hebrew people, and at best only known to them from specimens seen in Egypt, consisting of presents sent from Nubia, or in pictures on the walls of temples. The Camelopard or Giraffe is exclusively an inhabitant of Southern Africa, and therefore could not come in the way of the people of Israel. The same objection applies to the Elk, because that species of deer never appears further to the south than Northern [[Germany]] and Poland; and with regard to the Chamois, which has been adopted in our version, though it did exist in the mountains of Greece, and is still found in Central Asia, there is no vestige of its having at any time frequented [[Libanus]] or any other part of Syria. We may, therefore, with more propriety refer to the ruminants indigenous in the regions which were in the contemplation of the sacred legislator, and the only species that seems to answer to the conditions required is a wild sheep, still not uncommon in the Mokattam rocks near Cairo, found in Sinai, and eastward in the broken ridges of [[Stony]] Arabia, where it is known under the name of Kebsch. </p> | <p> [[Chamois]] (). Some suppose that the animal meant is the Camelopard, others the Elk. But it is plain that the [[Mosaic]] enumeration of clean animals would not include such as were totally out of the reach of the Hebrew people, and at best only known to them from specimens seen in Egypt, consisting of presents sent from Nubia, or in pictures on the walls of temples. The Camelopard or Giraffe is exclusively an inhabitant of Southern Africa, and therefore could not come in the way of the people of Israel. The same objection applies to the Elk, because that species of deer never appears further to the south than Northern [[Germany]] and Poland; and with regard to the Chamois, which has been adopted in our version, though it did exist in the mountains of Greece, and is still found in Central Asia, there is no vestige of its having at any time frequented [[Libanus]] or any other part of Syria. We may, therefore, with more propriety refer to the ruminants indigenous in the regions which were in the contemplation of the sacred legislator, and the only species that seems to answer to the conditions required is a wild sheep, still not uncommon in the Mokattam rocks near Cairo, found in Sinai, and eastward in the broken ridges of [[Stony]] Arabia, where it is known under the name of Kebsch. </p> | ||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_2219" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_2219" /> == | ||
<p> '''''sham´i''''' , '''''sha''''' -'''''mwa''''' ´, '''''sha''''' -'''''moi''''' ´ (זמר , <i> '''''zemer''''' </i> ; καμηλοπάρδαλις , <i> '''''kamēlopárdalis''''' </i> ): Occurs only once in the Bible, i.e. in the list of clean animals in Deuteronomy 14:5 . [[Gesenius]] refers to the verb <i> '''''zāmar''''' </i> , "to sing," and suggests the association of dancing or leaping, indicating thereby an active animal. M'Lean in <i> Encyclopedia Biblica </i> cites the rendering of the [[Targums]] <i> '''''dı̄ṣa'''''' </i> , or "wild goat." Now there are two wild goats in Palestine. The better known is the ibex of the South, which may well be the <i> '''''ya‛ēl''''' </i> (English Versions, "wild goat"; Job 39:1; Psalm 104:18; 1 Samuel 24:2 ), as well as the <i> ''''''aḳḳō''''' </i> (English Version, "wild goat," Deuteronomy 14:5 ). The other is the pasang or [[Persian]] wild goat which ranges from the Northeast of Palestine and the [[Syrian]] desert to Persia, and which may be the <i> '''''zemer''''' </i> (English [[Versions]] "chamois"). The accompanying illustration, which is taken from the <i> [[Royal]] Natural History </i> , shows the male and female and young. The male is distinguished by its larger horns and goatee. The horns are in size and curvature very similar to those of the ibex (see [[Goat]] , section 2) , but the front edge is like a nicked blade instead of being thick and knotty as in the ibex. Like the ibex it is at home among the rocks, and climbs apparently impossible cliffs with marvelous ease. </p> <p> Tristram ( <i> NHB </i> ) who is followed by Post ( <i> HDB </i> ) suggests that zemer may be the Barbary sheep ( <i> Ovis tragelaphus </i> ), though the latter is only known to inhabit the Atlas Mountains, from the Atlantic to Tunis. Tristram supports his view by reference to a <i> '''''kebsh''''' </i> ("ram") which the Arabs say lives in the mountains of Sinai, though they have apparently neither horns nor skins to show as trophies, and it is admitted that no European has seen it. The true chamois ( <i> Rupicapra tragus </i> ) inhabits the high mountains from the [[Pyrenees]] to the Caucasus, and there is no reason to suppose that it was ever found in [[Syria]] or Palestine. </p> | <p> '''''sham´i''''' , '''''sha''''' -'''''mwa''''' ´, '''''sha''''' -'''''moi''''' ´ ( זמר , <i> '''''zemer''''' </i> ; καμηλοπάρδαλις , <i> '''''kamēlopárdalis''''' </i> ): Occurs only once in the Bible, i.e. in the list of clean animals in Deuteronomy 14:5 . [[Gesenius]] refers to the verb <i> '''''zāmar''''' </i> , "to sing," and suggests the association of dancing or leaping, indicating thereby an active animal. M'Lean in <i> Encyclopedia Biblica </i> cites the rendering of the [[Targums]] <i> '''''dı̄ṣa'''''' </i> , or "wild goat." Now there are two wild goats in Palestine. The better known is the ibex of the South, which may well be the <i> '''''ya‛ēl''''' </i> (English Versions, "wild goat"; Job 39:1; Psalm 104:18; 1 Samuel 24:2 ), as well as the <i> ''''''aḳḳō''''' </i> (English Version, "wild goat," Deuteronomy 14:5 ). The other is the pasang or [[Persian]] wild goat which ranges from the Northeast of Palestine and the [[Syrian]] desert to Persia, and which may be the <i> '''''zemer''''' </i> (English [[Versions]] "chamois"). The accompanying illustration, which is taken from the <i> [[Royal]] Natural History </i> , shows the male and female and young. The male is distinguished by its larger horns and goatee. The horns are in size and curvature very similar to those of the ibex (see [[Goat]] , section 2) , but the front edge is like a nicked blade instead of being thick and knotty as in the ibex. Like the ibex it is at home among the rocks, and climbs apparently impossible cliffs with marvelous ease. </p> <p> Tristram ( <i> NHB </i> ) who is followed by Post ( <i> HDB </i> ) suggests that zemer may be the Barbary sheep ( <i> Ovis tragelaphus </i> ), though the latter is only known to inhabit the Atlas Mountains, from the Atlantic to Tunis. Tristram supports his view by reference to a <i> '''''kebsh''''' </i> ("ram") which the Arabs say lives in the mountains of Sinai, though they have apparently neither horns nor skins to show as trophies, and it is admitted that no European has seen it. The true chamois ( <i> Rupicapra tragus </i> ) inhabits the high mountains from the [[Pyrenees]] to the Caucasus, and there is no reason to suppose that it was ever found in [[Syria]] or Palestine. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_31489" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_31489" /> == | ||
<p> Bibliography InformationMcClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Chamois'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and [[Ecclesiastical]] Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/c/chamois.html. [[Harper]] & Brothers. New York. 1870. </p> | <p> Bibliography InformationMcClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Chamois'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and [[Ecclesiastical]] Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/c/chamois.html. [[Harper]] & Brothers. New York. 1870. </p> | ||
==References == | ==References == |
Revision as of 15:58, 12 October 2021
Fausset's Bible Dictionary [1]
Ζemer , from zaamar to leap. Allowed as clean food ( Deuteronomy 14:5). The giraffe according to Gosse, (from the Arabic version and the Septuagint). The objection is, the giraffe is not a native of Palestine; but it is of Nubia, and may have been of the Arabian peninsula at the Exodus. Clearly it is not the chamois found only on high peaks of the Alps, auras, and Caucasus. It may be some other species of antelope. Colossians Smith suggests the aoudad mountain sheep. The Syriac has "the mountain goat."
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]
CHAMOIS ( zemer , Deuteronomy 14:5 ). The tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of zemer as ‘chamois’ in EV [Note: English Version.] and as ‘camelopard,’ i.e. giraffe, in LXX [Note: Septuagint.] , are both certainly incorrect, as neither of these animals occurs in Palestine. Tristram suggests the wild sheep, Ovis tragelaphus , an animal about 3 feet high with long curved horns. It is well known to the Bedouln.
E. W. G. Masterman.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): (n.) A small species of antelope (Rupicapra tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase.
(2): (n.) A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; - called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leather. See Shammy.
Morrish Bible Dictionary [4]
The Hebrew word is zemer, Deuteronomy 14:5 , which is held to signify 'leaper,' and would thus suit the chamois; but this animal is unknown in Palestine and is supposed never to have existed there. It has been suggested that the animal specified is the aoudad, the mountain sheep; others judge the wild goat to be referred to.
Smith's Bible Dictionary [5]
Chamois. (Often pronounced 'shame'). The translation of the Hebrew, zemer, in Deuteronomy 14:5. But the translation is incorrect; for there is no evidence that the chamois have ever been seen in Palestine or the Lebanon. It is probable that some mountain sheep is intended.
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary [6]
Not the well-known mountain goat of southern Europe, but probably a variety of wild sheep, resembling a goat, and still found in Arabia Petraea, Deuteronomy 14:5 .
People's Dictionary of the Bible [7]
Chamois ( sham'my). Deuteronomy 14:5. A species of wild sheep.
Holman Bible Dictionary [8]
rupicapra Deuteronomy 14:5Animals
King James Dictionary [9]
CHAMOIS, n. An animal of the goat kind, whose skin is made into soft leather, called shammy. It is now arranged with the Antelopes.
Easton's Bible Dictionary [10]
Deuteronomy 14:5
Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature [11]
Chamois (). Some suppose that the animal meant is the Camelopard, others the Elk. But it is plain that the Mosaic enumeration of clean animals would not include such as were totally out of the reach of the Hebrew people, and at best only known to them from specimens seen in Egypt, consisting of presents sent from Nubia, or in pictures on the walls of temples. The Camelopard or Giraffe is exclusively an inhabitant of Southern Africa, and therefore could not come in the way of the people of Israel. The same objection applies to the Elk, because that species of deer never appears further to the south than Northern Germany and Poland; and with regard to the Chamois, which has been adopted in our version, though it did exist in the mountains of Greece, and is still found in Central Asia, there is no vestige of its having at any time frequented Libanus or any other part of Syria. We may, therefore, with more propriety refer to the ruminants indigenous in the regions which were in the contemplation of the sacred legislator, and the only species that seems to answer to the conditions required is a wild sheep, still not uncommon in the Mokattam rocks near Cairo, found in Sinai, and eastward in the broken ridges of Stony Arabia, where it is known under the name of Kebsch.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [12]
sham´i , sha -mwa ´, sha -moi ´ ( זמר , zemer ; καμηλοπάρδαλις , kamēlopárdalis ): Occurs only once in the Bible, i.e. in the list of clean animals in Deuteronomy 14:5 . Gesenius refers to the verb zāmar , "to sing," and suggests the association of dancing or leaping, indicating thereby an active animal. M'Lean in Encyclopedia Biblica cites the rendering of the Targums dı̄ṣa' , or "wild goat." Now there are two wild goats in Palestine. The better known is the ibex of the South, which may well be the ya‛ēl (English Versions, "wild goat"; Job 39:1; Psalm 104:18; 1 Samuel 24:2 ), as well as the 'aḳḳō (English Version, "wild goat," Deuteronomy 14:5 ). The other is the pasang or Persian wild goat which ranges from the Northeast of Palestine and the Syrian desert to Persia, and which may be the zemer (English Versions "chamois"). The accompanying illustration, which is taken from the Royal Natural History , shows the male and female and young. The male is distinguished by its larger horns and goatee. The horns are in size and curvature very similar to those of the ibex (see Goat , section 2) , but the front edge is like a nicked blade instead of being thick and knotty as in the ibex. Like the ibex it is at home among the rocks, and climbs apparently impossible cliffs with marvelous ease.
Tristram ( NHB ) who is followed by Post ( HDB ) suggests that zemer may be the Barbary sheep ( Ovis tragelaphus ), though the latter is only known to inhabit the Atlas Mountains, from the Atlantic to Tunis. Tristram supports his view by reference to a kebsh ("ram") which the Arabs say lives in the mountains of Sinai, though they have apparently neither horns nor skins to show as trophies, and it is admitted that no European has seen it. The true chamois ( Rupicapra tragus ) inhabits the high mountains from the Pyrenees to the Caucasus, and there is no reason to suppose that it was ever found in Syria or Palestine.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [13]
Bibliography InformationMcClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Chamois'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/c/chamois.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
References
- ↑ Chamois from Fausset's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Chamois from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
- ↑ Chamois from Webster's Dictionary
- ↑ Chamois from Morrish Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Chamois from Smith's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Chamois from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Chamois from People's Dictionary of the Bible
- ↑ Chamois from Holman Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Chamois from King James Dictionary
- ↑ Chamois from Easton's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Chamois from Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature
- ↑ Chamois from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
- ↑ Chamois from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature