(Hebrews tsebi), properly the gazelle (Arab. ghazal), permitted for food (Deuteronomy 14:5; Comp. Deuteronomy 12:15, 22; 15:22; 1 Kings 4:23), noted for its swiftness and beauty and grace of form (2 Samuel 2:18; 1 Chronicles 12:8; Cant. 2:9; 7:3; 8:14).

The gazelle (Gazella dorcas) is found in great numbers in Palestine. "Among the gray hills of Galilee it is still `the roe upon the mountains of Bether,' and I have seen a little troop of gazelles feeding on the Mount of Olives close to Jerusalem itself" (Tristram).

The Hebrew word (`ayyalah) in Proverbs 5:19 thus rendered (R.V., "doe"), is properly the "wild she-goat," the mountain goat, the ibex. (See 1 Samuel 24:2; Psalm 104:18; Job 39:1.)

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A roebuck. See Roebuck.

2. (n.) The female of any species of deer.

3. (n.) The ova or spawn of fishes and amphibians, especially when still enclosed in the ovarian membranes. Sometimes applied, loosely, to the sperm and the testes of the male.

4. (n.) A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.