Lexical Summary dishon: mountain goat (a cermonially clean animal) Original Word: דִּישׂןTransliteration: dishon Phonetic Spelling: (dee-shone') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: mountain goat (a cermonially clean animal) Meaning: mountain goat (a cermonially clean animal) Strong's Concordance An antelope -- pygargFrom duwsh; the leaper, i.e. An antelope -- pygarg. see HEBREW duwsh Brown-Driver-Briggs H1788. dishon I. דִּישֹׁן noun [masculine] a clean animal, ᵐ5 πύγαργος compare ᵑ9; hence AV RV & most pygarg, a kind of antelope or gazelle, compare Di Leviticus 11:2f.; perhaps rather mountain-goat, HomNS 391 compare Ethiopic version [ᵑ8̈]; only Deuteronomy 14:5 — (Homl.c. derives from √ דושׁ with kindred meaning of spring, leap & compare Assyrian daššu; so already DlS i. 54). |