. A dictionary of the Bible .. . The authority of the LXX.,however, in a question of this kind, should decidethe matter: accordingly we have little doubt butthat the yachmur of the Heb. Scriptures denotesthe bekker-el-wash, or wild ox, of Barbary andN. Africa. (See Shaws Travels, p. 242, and 75, folio; Buflbn, Hist. Natur. xii. p. 294.) TheGreek ^ov^aXos evidently points to some animalhaving the general appearance of an ox. Pliny{N. H. viii. 15) tells us that the common people intheir ignorance sometimes gave the name of bubalusto the Bison (Auroch) and the Unis. He adds, theanimal pr
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . The authority of the LXX.,however, in a question of this kind, should decidethe matter: accordingly we have little doubt butthat the yachmur of the Heb. Scriptures denotesthe bekker-el-wash, or wild ox, of Barbary andN. Africa. (See Shaws Travels, p. 242, and 75, folio; Buflbn, Hist. Natur. xii. p. 294.) TheGreek ^ov^aXos evidently points to some animalhaving the general appearance of an ox. Pliny{N. H. viii. 15) tells us that the common people intheir ignorance sometimes gave the name of bubalusto the Bison (Auroch) and the Unis. He adds, theanimal properly so called is produced in Africa,andbears a resemblance to the calf and the stag. Thatthis antelope partakes in external form of the cha-racters belonging both to the Cervine and Bovine FIG-TREE xlix ruminants will be evident to any one who glancesat the woodcut. ?• From the root ~\Dn, to be red. 5 J o --^ .^,j,2>j. Ruber; animal ad genus pertinens cui est apud Arabes nomen ^|i^^J\ J(j (Freytag,/.ex. ^n).[ArrENDix.]. Alctla} hus bubalis Tlie bekker-el-icash appears to be depicted in theEgyptian monuments, where it is lepresented asbeing hunted for the sake of its flesh, which Shawtells us (Suppl. p. 75) is very svifeet and nourishing,much preferable to that of the red deer. (See Wil-kinsons Anc. Egypt, i. p. 223, figs. 3, 4, and p. 225,fig. 19.) This animal, which is about the size of astag, is common in N. Africa, and lives in were at one time inclined to refer the to the Oryx lencoryx (see art. Ox) ; onfurther investigation however we have decided forthe Alcelaphus. The Teo or To may perhapstherefore denote the former antelope, FIG-TREE ^addition to the article on, p. 619].Few passages in the Gospels have given occasion toso much perplexity as that of St. Mark xi. 13,where the Evangelist relates the circumstance ofour Lords cursing the fig-tree near Bethany: And seeing a fig-tree afar off having leaves, hecame, if haply he might find any thing
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