Lexicon :: Strong's H6643 - ṣᵊḇî

“However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your [city] gates, whatever you wish, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you [as His generous provision for daily life]. The [ceremonially] unclean and the clean may eat it, such as the gazelle and the deer.

“Your glory and splendor, O Israel, is slain upon your high places!

How the mighty have fallen!

Three sons of Zeruiah [the half sister of David] were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was as light and swift-footed as one of the [wild] gazelles in the field.

Courageous men from the Gadites came over to David in the stronghold in the wilderness, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and who were swift as gazelles on the mountains.

Tear yourself away like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter

And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

(The Bridegroom)

“I command that you take an oath, O daughters of Jerusalem,

By the gazelles or by the does of the field [which run free],

That you do not rouse nor awaken my love

Until she pleases.”

“My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag.

Behold, he is standing behind our wall,

He is looking through the windows,

He is gazing through the lattice.

“Until the cool of the day when the shadows flee away,

Return quickly, my beloved, and be like a gazelle

Or a young stag on the mountains of Bether [which separate us].”

(The Bridegroom)

“I command that you take an oath, O daughters of Jerusalem,

By the gazelles or by the does of the field,

That you do not rouse nor awaken my love

Until she pleases.”

(The Shulammite Bride)

“Hurry, my beloved and come quickly,

Like a gazelle or a young stag [taking me home]

On the mountains of spices.”

In that day the Branch of the LORD will be splendid and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be excellent and lovely to those of Israel who have survived.

And like the hunted gazelle,

Or like sheep that no man gathers,

Each [foreign resident] will turn [and go back] to his own people,

And each one flee to his own land.

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the [fn]Chaldeans’ pride,

Will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.

The LORD of hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all beauty,

To bring into contempt and humiliation all the honored of the earth.

From the ends of the earth we hear songs, “Glory and honor to the Righteous One,”

But I say, “I waste away, I waste away. Woe to me!

The treacherous deal treacherously,

Indeed, the treacherous deal very treacherously.”

Woe (judgment is coming) to [Samaria] the splendid crown of the drunkards of [fn]Ephraim,

And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,

Which is at the head of the rich valley

Of those who are overcome with wine!

And the fading flower of its glorious beauty,

Which is at the head of the rich valley,

Will be like the early fig before the summer,

Which one sees,

And as soon as it is in his hand

He [greedily] swallows it [and so will the Assyrians rapidly devour Samaria, Israel’s capital].

“Then I said,

‘How [gloriously and honorably] I would set you among My children

And give you a pleasant land—a wonderful heritage,

The most beautiful inheritance of the nations!’

And I said, ‘You shall call Me, My Father

And not turn away from following Me.’

Out of one of them (Antiochus IV Epiphanes) came forth a rather small horn [but one of irreverent presumption and profane pride] which grew exceedingly powerful toward the south, toward the east, and toward the Beautiful Land (Israel).