Pygarg
The pygarg (Template:IPAc-en[1]) is an animal mentioned in the Bible in Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". as one of the animals permitted for food. The Septuagint translates the Hebrew yachmur (יחמור) as Script error: No such module "lang". in Koiné Greek ("white-rumped", from Script error: No such module "lang". "buttocks" and Script error: No such module "lang". "white"),[1] and the King James Version takes from there its term pygarg.
Henry Baker Tristram (1867) proposed that the pygarg was the Saharan antelope addax and described it as "a large animal, over Script error: No such module "convert". high at the shoulder, and, with its gently-twisted horns, Script error: No such module "convert". feet long. Its colour is pure white, with the exception of a short black mane, and a tinge of tawny on the shoulders and back".[2]
Outside the biblical use, the term was also applied to the Siberian roe deer in the 18th century,[3] whose specific name is Script error: No such module "Lang". in scientific Latin. This deer, like other roe deer, has a white rump, which is consistent with the Septuagint translation while the addax is all-white during the summer (rather than just having a white rump).
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- ↑ Henry Baker Tristram, The Natural History of the Bible (1867).
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