Roebuck
CLEAN
Parts the hoof and chews the cud (Lev 11:3)
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 5 verses (KJV)
Meat
Description
The roebuck was a smaller wild deer, hunted rather than herded, and clean enough to eat under the law. It appears on Solomon’s staggering daily menu alongside oxen, sheep, and fattened fowl — a glimpse of just how much a royal court consumed.
Key verses
“The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.”
Deuteronomy 14:5
“Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.”
1 Kings 4:23
Fun fact
Roebuck made Solomon’s daily table (1 Kings 4:23), part of provisions large enough to feed his entire court every single day.
All 5 referencesshow
- 1 Kings 4:23
- Deuteronomy 12:15
- Deuteronomy 12:22
- Deuteronomy 14:5
- Deuteronomy 15:22