(The Song of Solomon 2:9; 7:3; 8:14) The gazelle (Gazella dorcas) is found in great numbers in Palestine. "Among the gray hills of Galilee it is still 'the roe upon the mountains of Bether,' and I have seen a little troop of gazelles feeding on the Mount of Olives close to Jerusalem itself" (Tristram).

2. The Hebrew word ('ayyalah) in (Proverbs 5:19) thus rendered (R.V., "doe"), is properly the "wild she-goat," the mountain goat, the ibex. (See) (1 Samuel 24:2; Psalms 104:18; Job 39:1)