The corpus record

χίμᾰρος

chimaros · ὁ

he-goat, kid

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Where it lives

Numeri 27 · 11.7/10k
Leviticus 20 · 10.69/10k
Esdras II 3 · 2.53/10k
Esdras I 1 · 1.22/10k
Paralipomenon II 2 · 1.02/10k
Psalmi 2 · 0.58/10k
Deuteronomium 1 · 0.45/10k

What it meant — LSJ

he-goat, kid

he-goat, Ar. Eq. 661, Schwyzer 784a1 (Tenos, iv B. C.), Theoc. Ep. 4.15, AP 6.190.10 (Gaet.): a young he-goat, older than ἔριφος, Ar.Byz. ap. Eust. 1625.33; χ. ἐξ αἰγῶν kid, LXX Le. 4.23; χ. ἐρυθρός Berl.Sitzb. 1927.156 (Cyrene).

fem. = χίμαιρα, Theoc. 1.6, Epigr. 6.3, AP 6.157 (Theodorid.), 9.403 (Maec.). (Cogn. with χεῖμα, χειμών, lit. ‘one winter old’, cf. Lat. bīmus (fr. *bǐ-hǐmus, cf. Skt. himás ‘winterʼ).)

In the wild

χίμαρον · chimaron Septuaginta, Deuteronomium 14
χιμάρους · chimarous Septuaginta, Esdras I 7
χίμαρος · chimaros Septuaginta, Esdras II 15
χιμάρους · chimarous Septuaginta, Esdras II 6
χιμάρους · chimarous Septuaginta, Esdras II 8
χίμαρον · chimaron Septuaginta, Leviticus 10

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Where it came from

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