. A dictionary of the Bible .. . Ha e of Muunt Lebanon Hares are so plentiful in the environs of Aleppo,says Dr. Eussell (p. 158), that it was no uncommonthing to see the gentlemen who went out a sportingtwice a-week return with four or five brace hungin triumph at the giiths of the servants Turks and the natives, he adds, do not eat thehare ; but the Arabs, who have a peculiar mode ofdi-essing it, are fond of its flesh. Hares are huntedin Syria with greyhound and falcon. HART [addition to the article on, p. 759].The Heb. masc. noun ayjjal (/N), which is always rendered fKaipos by t
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . Ha e of Muunt Lebanon Hares are so plentiful in the environs of Aleppo,says Dr. Eussell (p. 158), that it was no uncommonthing to see the gentlemen who went out a sportingtwice a-week return with four or five brace hungin triumph at the giiths of the servants Turks and the natives, he adds, do not eat thehare ; but the Arabs, who have a peculiar mode ofdi-essing it, are fond of its flesh. Hares are huntedin Syria with greyhound and falcon. HART [addition to the article on, p. 759].The Heb. masc. noun ayjjal (/N), which is always rendered fKaipos by the LXX., denotes, theie canbe no doubt, some species of Ccrvidae (deer tribe),either the Dama vulgaris, fallow-deer, or the CervusBarbanis, the Barbary deer, the southern repi-e-sentative of the Euiopean stag (C. elaphus), whichoccurs in Tunis and the coast of Barbary. We have,however, no evidence to show that the Barbary deerever inhabited Palestine, thoue;h there is no reason. why it may not have done so in primitive (Trav. p. 211) obseived the fallow-deeron Mount Tabor. Sir G. Wilkinson says { p. 227, 8vo. ed.), The stag with branchinghoms figured at Beni Hassan is also unknown inthe valley of the Nile; but it is still seen in thevicinity of the Natron lakes, as about Tunis, thoughnot in the desert between the river and the RedSea. This is doubtless the Cervus Barharus. Most of the deer tribe are careful to conceal theircah-es after birth for a time. May there not besome allusion to this circumstance in Job xxxix. 1, Canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? &, as the LXX. uniformly renders ai/ydl bye\a(f>os, we may incline to the belief that theCervus Barharus is the deer denoted. The femininenoun n7*K, ayydldh, occurs frequently in the 0. the Scriptural allusions see under Hind. HAWK {f^i, nets : Upa^: aecipiter), thetianslation of tlie above-named Heb. term, which
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