Strong's Definition
apparently from 2167 or 2168; a gazelle (from its lightly touching the ground)
KJV Usage: chamois
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
זֶ֫מֶר (ze.mer) — mountain goat. 1) mountain sheep, mountain goat, moufflon, gazelle, chamois (meaning uncertain) 1a) a certain animal allowed as food (specific species uncertain) 1b) perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
Wild Animals
mountain sheep, deer exact meaning unknown; probably: = wild sheep, wild goat or deer; ► clean and can therefore be eaten
1 DEU 14:5 RSV NIV NJPS NJB NRSV ESV "mountain sheep" REB "rock-goat"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[זֶ֫מֶר] n.[m.] a certain animal allowed as food, most prob. some kind of mountain-sheep or -goat Dt 14:5. ref
