Pygarg is an animal mentioned in the Bible as one of the animals permitted for food. The Septuagint translates the Hebrew ḏîšōn (דִּישֹׁן) as pygargos in Koiné Greek (“white-rumped”, from pyge “buttocks” and argo “white”), and the King James Version takes from there its term pygarg.
Listed as among the clean animals.
Deuteronomy 14:5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
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