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hart

noun (harts)

«hart» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

An old word for a male deer, a stag, especially a full-grown red deer with large antlers. tree →

In the lessons

old use, in fairy tales and old stories; in the lessons it names an animal in a forest scene, often with a hind (female deer)

Examples

  • The hart ran through the forest. tree →
  • We saw a hart and a hind in the meadow. tree →
  • The hunters chased the hart all day. tree →

Note

nothing for maths

In Jewish tradition

Named among the clean animals that Israelites may eat. It may be eaten even by those who are unclean, because it is not a sacrifice.

Interpretation. Its clean status is a sign that it has both signs of kosher animals, and eating it as ordinary food is allowed.

Examples

  • the hart, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the mountain-sheep. (Torah DEU.14.5, JPS 1917) tree →
  • Thou shalt eat it within thy gates; the unclean and the clean may eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart. (Torah DEU.15.22, JPS 1917) tree →
  • Howbeit as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof; the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike. (Torah DEU.12.22, JPS 1917) tree →
  • As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God. (Writings PSA.42.2, JPS 1917) tree →
  • Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a gazelle or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. (Writings SNG.8.14, JPS 1917) tree →
  • ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl. (Prophets 1KI.5.3, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

nothing for maths

On Mova

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