Hart. The male stag. The word denotes some member of the deer tribe either the fallow deer or the Barbary deer. The hart is reckoned among the clean animals, Deuteronomy 12:15; Deuteronomy 14:5; Deuteronomy 15:22, and seems, from the passages quoted, as well as from, 1 Kings 4:23, to have been commonly killed for food.