. A dictionary of the Bible .. . were some-times used as clothing (Heb. xi. 37). The passage in Cant. iv. 1, which compares thehair of the beloved to a flock of goats that eatof Mount Gilead, probably alludes to the finehair of the Angora breed. Some have very plau-sibly supposed that the prophet Amos (iii. 12),when he speaks of a shepherd taking out of themouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear,alludes to the long pendulous ears of the Syrianbreed (see Harmers Obser. iv. 162). In Prov. , a he-goat is mentioned as one of the four thingswhich are comely in going; in allusion, prob
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . were some-times used as clothing (Heb. xi. 37). The passage in Cant. iv. 1, which compares thehair of the beloved to a flock of goats that eatof Mount Gilead, probably alludes to the finehair of the Angora breed. Some have very plau-sibly supposed that the prophet Amos (iii. 12),when he speaks of a shepherd taking out of themouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear,alludes to the long pendulous ears of the Syrianbreed (see Harmers Obser. iv. 162). In Prov. , a he-goat is mentioned as one of the four thingswhich are comely in going; in allusion, probably,to the stately march of the leader of the flock,which was always associated in the minds of theHebrews with the notion of dignity. Hence themetaphor in Is. xiv. 9, all the chief ones (margin,great goats) of the earth. So the of the LXX. understands the allusion, koirpdyos r^yov/xevos atTToAioi/. Comp. Theocritvis, Id. viii. 49, Q, rpayc, rav KiVKaval-^av aiep; and Virg. Ed. vii. 7, Vir gregis Long-eared Syrian goat As to the yeelim (p^^V): rpayeXacpoi, ehacpoi:ibices: wild goats, A. V.), it is not at all im-probable, as the Vulg. interprets the word, thatsome species of ibex is denoted, perhaps the CapraSinaitica (Ehrenb.), the Beden or Jaela of Egyptand Arabia. This ibex was noticed at Sinai byEhrenberg and Hemprich {Sgm. Phys. t. 18), andby Burckhardt [Trav. p. 526), who (p. 405) thusspeaks of these animals : • In all the valleys southof the Modjeb, and particularly in those of Modjcband El Alisii, large herds of mountain goats, called by the Arabs Beden (, .Jo), are met with. Thisis the steinbock or bouquetin of the Swiss and Tyrol The Capra Sinaitica is not identical with the Swissibex or steinbock (C. Ibex), though it is a closely alliedspecies. GOURD Alps. They pasture in flocks of forty and fiftytogether. Great numbers of them are killed by thepeople of Kerek and Tafyle, who hold their flesh inhigh estimation. They sell the large kn
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