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(ii) Opher (6082) - dust / grey - graceful on the high places.
Scholars are not sure of the precise species or kind of deer Esau hunted or Solomon served. The terms stag or buck (male), hart (male), and hind (female) are used of the red deer common in Europe, which has never lived in Palestine. Likely candidates are the fallow deer <Deut. 14:5>, (KJV), which was common in Mesopotamia, and the roe deer, often called by its male name, roe buck <Deut. 14:5>, (RSV). Bible translators often interchanged terms for various kinds of deer, and for gazelle as well; so readers must settle for informed guesses about the exact species intended.
(from Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary)
(Copyright (C) 1986, Thomas Nelson Publishers)
(iii) Type of Christ.
(iv) (a) 2:9,17