Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 14:5
Ver. 5. The fallow-deer— It is not certain what animal is meant by the word יחמור iachmor, which we render fallow-deer. Parkhurst says, it is the antelope, an animal of the deer kind, very fierce and quarrelsome (whence its name). It is found in Syria, about the Euphrates; and the Arabs still retain its Hebrew name, calling it jachmur or jamur. See Bochart, vol. 2: p. 910. & seq. The pygarg דישׁון dishon, is also an animal of the deer kind, so called from its ashen colour; the tragelaphus... read more
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Deuteronomy 14:1-21
Ver. 1-21. God, having chosen Israel for his own, separated them from the nations, adopted them as his children, and designed them for his glory, has a right to expect from them that they should answer these purposes of his grace, and approve themselves a holy people before him. And this must appear, 1. In their mournings, when all inordinate sorrow must be avoided; and every superstitious practice which the Gentiles used must be abhorred. Note; (1.) We are not forbidden to mourn for the dead;... read more