Fallow Deer
Fausset's Bible Dictionary [1]
Septuagint, Alexandrinus manuscript, boubalos , the Αntilope bubalis . Hebrew yachmur , from chamar "red." A clean animal ( Deuteronomy 14:5). Used at Solomon's table ( 1 Kings 4:23). The Cervus dama, of a reddish color (as its name yachmur implies), shedding its horns yearly (Oedmann). Gosse makes it the Addax antelope, a beast of chase represented in the old Egyptian sculptures.
Coarse, and approaching to the bovine race, of reddish head and neck, white across the face, the forehead and throat with black hair, the rest of the body of whitish gray. Smith's Bible Dictionary Append. (as Septuagint), the wild ox (bekker el wash ) of N. Africa, the Αlkelaphus bubalis , an antelope resembling the calf and the stag, the size of the latter. Sir V. Brooke, however, has decided that a specimen sent him of the Bedouin yahmur , from Carmel, is the Cervus capreolus or ordinary roebuck (Palestine Exploration Quarterly Statement, July, 1876).
Smith's Bible Dictionary [2]
Fallow Deer. (called 'fallow' from its Reddish-Brown Color ). (Hebrew, yachmur ). The Hebrew word, which is mentioned only in Deuteronomy 14:5 and 1 Kings 4:23, probably denotes the Alcelaphus bubalis (The Bubale or Wild Cow ) of Barbary and North Africa. It is about the size of a stag, and lives in herds. It is almost exactly like the European Roebuck , and is valued for its venison.
Morrish Bible Dictionary [3]
yachmur. What species of deer is referred to under this name is not known. The only description of it in scripture is that it was a clean animal that the Israelites might eat, and that it was supplied to the table of Solomon. Deuteronomy 14:5; 1 Kings 4:23 . The Hebrew name seems to imply that it was some deer of a 'red' colour.
Webster's Dictionary [4]
A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.
