PYGARG

White-rump. This is properly the name of a species of eagle; but is applied, in De 14:5, to a quadruped, apparently a species of gazelle or antelope. So the Syriac version and Targums. Both the Arabic versions refer it to a species of mountain goat.

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Pygarg. Pygarg
Heb. dishon, “springing”, (Deut. 14:5), one of the animals permitted for food. It is supposed to be the Antelope addax. It is described as “a large animal, over 3 1/2 feet high at the shoulder, and, with its gently-twisted horns, 2 1/2 feet long. Its colour is pure white, with the exception of a short black mane, and a tinge of tawny on the shoulders and back.”, Tristram’s Natural History.

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PYGARG. → Probably a species of antelope De 14:5

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{ Py″garg (?), ‖Py‐gar″gus (?), } [[L. pygargus, Gr. �, literally, white rump; � the rump + white: cf. F. pygargue.]] 1. 1. (Zoöl.) A quadruped, probably the addax, an antelope having a white rump. Deut. xiv. 5.
2. 2. (Zoöl.) (a) The female of the hen harrier. (b) The sea eagle.