צְבִי
tse.vi (H6643B)
gazelle
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# The Hebrew Word for Gazelle (H6643B - צְבִי) The Hebrew word *tse.vi* (צְבִי) denotes a gazelle, a specific animal rather than a general category. With fourteen occurrences in the biblical text, it represents a focused and consistent reference to this particular creature throughout Scripture. The word's precise definition indicates that biblical writers used it to identify gazelles with specificity, not as a metaphorical or broader term for game animals or wildlife in general. The relatively modest number of occurrences—fourteen instances across the entire Hebrew Bible—suggests that gazelles held a defined but not dominant place in biblical imagery and daily life. This frequency pattern indicates the word was precise enough to be used when gazelles were actually referenced, rather than serving as a catch-all term. The consistency of the definition across all occurrences means that whenever *tse.vi* appears, it carries the same concrete meaning, making it a reliable linguistic marker for identifying passages where this particular animal is discussed, whether in narrative accounts, legal provisions, or poetic descriptions.
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Yet you may kill and eat meat within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to Yahweh your God’s blessing which he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.
Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.
You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer.
The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, in addition to deer, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.
Some Gadites joined David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains:
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.
My beloved is like a roe or a young deer. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.
Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up nor awaken love, until it so desires.
Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!
It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.