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Chamois.


The Hebrew word is zemer, Deut. 14: 5, which is held to signify 'leaper,' and would thus suit the chamois; but this animal is unknown in Palestine and is supposed never to have existed there. It has been suggested that the animal specified is the aoudad, the mountain

sheep; others judge the wild goat to be referred to.