עָפָר Fawn
Every verse in which this word stands — 5 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the places the lexicon carries under this word's own entry, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.
The ofer, the fawn of the does — Shir HaShirim's own word for the beloved. The same letters, under a different entry, are afar, dust; that word is not counted here.
דּוֹמֶה דוֹדִי לִצְבִי אוֹ לְעֹפֶר הָֽאַיָּלִים הִנֵּה־זֶה עוֹמֵד אַחַר כָּתְלֵנוּ מַשְׁגִּיחַ מִן־הַֽחֲלֹּנוֹת מֵצִיץ מִן־הַֽחֲרַכִּֽים
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young hart; Behold, he standeth behind our wall, He looketh in through the windows, He peereth through the lattice.
עַד שֶׁיָּפוּחַ הַיּוֹם וְנָסוּ הַצְּלָלִים סֹב דְּמֵה־לְךָ דוֹדִי לִצְבִי אוֹ לְעֹפֶר הָאַיָּלִים עַל־הָרֵי בָֽתֶר
Until the day breathe, and the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved, and be thou like a gazelle or a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.
שְׁנֵי שָׁדַיִךְ כִּשְׁנֵי עֳפָרִים תְּאוֹמֵי צְבִיָּה הָרוֹעִים בַּשּׁוֹשַׁנִּֽים
Thy two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a gazelle, Which feed among the lilies.
שְׁנֵי שָׁדַיִךְ כִּשְׁנֵי עֳפָרִים תָּאֳמֵי צְבִיָּֽה
Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a gazelle.
בְּרַח דּוֹדִי וּֽדְמֵה־לְךָ לִצְבִי אוֹ לְעֹפֶר הָֽאַיָּלִים עַל הָרֵי בְשָׂמִֽים
Make haste, my beloved, And be thou like to a gazelle or to a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.
Quick answers
What is the Hebrew word for fawn?
Fawn in Hebrew is עפר, with a gematria of 350 in the standard method.
How many times is the fawn mentioned in the Tanakh?
The word stands 5 times in the Tanakh, first at Song of Songs 2:9.
A spelling is not a word. The bare letters עפר stand 48 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell a name or another word entirely, and the creature written with a particle attached is a spelling that search never returns. It is here, as itself.
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