Deer

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Also called, FALLOW DEER, HART, HIND, ROEBUCK

Designated among the ceremonially clean animals, to be eaten

• Deuteronomy 12:15 But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,
• Deuteronomy 14:5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

Provided for Solomon's household

• 1 Kings 4:23 ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.

Fleetness of

• 2 Samuel 2:18 The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was fleet of foot like a wild gazelle,
• 1 Chronicles 12:8 Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the wilderness. They were mighty men of valor, trained for battle, experts with the shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were as swift as gazelles on the mountains:
• Proverbs 6:5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
• Proverbs 8:14 Counsel and sound judgment are mine; I have insight and strength.
• Isaiah 35:6 Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

Surefootedness of

• 2 Samuel 22:34 He makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.

Gentleness of

• Proverbs 5:19 A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.

Coloring of

• Jeremiah 14:5 Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.