ROE

(Heb. tsebi), properly the gazelle (Arab. ghazal), permitted for food (Deut. 14:5; comp. Deut. 12:15, Deut. 12: 22;15:22; 1-Kings 4:23), noted for its swiftness and beauty and grace of form (2-Sam 2:18; 1-Chr 12:8; 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 Prov. 5:19 thus rendered (R.V., "doe"), is properly the "wild she-goat," the mountain goat, the ibex. (See 1-Sam 24:2; Psa 104:18; Job 39:1.)