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Definition of Pygarg
1. Noun. (biblical) An unidentified large animal with horns, possibly the addax, mentioned in the Bible (Deuteronomy 14:5) as one of the animals permitted for food. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pygarg
1. the addax antelope [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pygarg
Literary usage of Pygarg
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Palestine, Or the Holy Land: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Michael Russell (1837)
"... —ZOOLOGY—Scripture Animals—The Hart—The Roebuck— Fallow-deer—Wild-goat —
pygarg—Wild-ox — Chamois — Unicorn—Wild-ass—Wild-goats of the Rock—Saphan, ..."
2. Scripture Natural History by Henry Chichester Hart, William Howse Groser (1888)
"See pygarg. CAMEL (Heb. ?D| gamal). Gamal (Arabic J,~- gemel) is the common Hebrew
name for this most valuable of all animals in the desert regions of the ..."
3. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1849)
"But if the English pygarg means a certain species of bird, excluding all kinds of
... translated * pygarg.' The tenor of the text not only excludes the ..."
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