2169. zemer
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zemer: Mountain goat, chamois

Original Word: זֶמֶר
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: zemer
Pronunciation: ZE-mer
Phonetic Spelling: (zeh'-mer)
KJV: chamois
NASB: mountain sheep
Word Origin: [apparently from H2167 (זָמַר - sing praises) or H2168 (זָמַר - prune)]

1. a gazelle (from its lightly touching the ground)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
chamois

Apparently from zamar or zamar; a gazelle (from its lightly touching the ground) -- chamois.

see HEBREW zamar

see HEBREW zamar

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
perhaps a mountain sheep or goat
NASB Translation
mountain sheep (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
[זֶ֫מֶר] noun [masculine] a certain animal allowed as food, most probably some kind of mountain-sheep or -goat (ᵑ6 ) וָזָמֶ֑ר Deuteronomy 14:5. (AV RV chamois: but see TristrDB 2. under the word, who points out that this is not a native of any Bible land.)

Forms and Transliterations
וָזָֽמֶר׃ וזמר׃ vaZamer wā·zā·mer wāzāmer
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Deuteronomy 14:5
HEB: וְדִישֹׁ֖ן וּתְא֥וֹ וָזָֽמֶר׃
NAS: the antelope and the mountain sheep.
KJV: and the wild ox, and the chamois.
INT: the ibex the antelope and the mountain

1 Occurrence

Strong's Hebrew 2169
1 Occurrence


wā·zā·mer — 1 Occ.

2168
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