Chamois

Narrator: Chris Genthree

Duration: 23sec

Deuteronomy 14:5

The Hebrew word is zemer (Deut. 14:5⁵The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois. (Deuteronomy 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.