Topic
Hart
9 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Deuteronomy 12:15Easton · Smith
Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
- Deuteronomy 14:5Easton · Smith
The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
- Deuteronomy 15:22Easton · Smith
Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
- 1 Kings 4:23Easton · Smith
Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
- Psalms 42:1Easton
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
- Song of Songs 2:8Easton
¶ The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
- Song of Songs 2:9Easton
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
- Isaiah 35:6Easton
Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
- Lamentations 1:6Easton
And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 9 references
(Heb. ‘ayal), a stag or male deer. It is ranked among the clean animals (Deut. 12:15; 14:5; 15:22), and was commonly killed for food (1 Kings 4:23). The hart is frequently alluded to in the poetical and prophetical books (Isa. 35:6; Cant. 2:8, 9; Lam. 1:6; Ps. 42:1).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 4 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
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In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 0 references, grouped by sub-topic
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Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.