Strong's Hebrew · H6679

H6679 tsûwd

צוּד

tsood

to hunt

tsûwd appears 18 times in Scripture, including Genesis 27:3 and Leviticus 17:13. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

to lie alongside (i.e. in wait); by implication, to catch an animal (figuratively, men); to victual (for a journey)

In the King James Version

chase, hunt, sore, take (provision).

Derivation

a primitive root; also denominative from H6718 (צַיִד)

Appears 18 times in Scripture

Joshua 9:12

“This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But look, it is now dry and moldy.”

Genesis 27:5

“Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,”

Job 10:16

“Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.”

Genesis 27:3

“Take your weapons—your quiver and bow—and go out into the field to hunt some game for me.”

Leviticus 17:13

“And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.”

Genesis 27:33

“Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!””

Psalms 140:11

“May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.”

Lamentations 3:52

“Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.”

Job 38:39

“Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions”

Proverbs 6:26

“For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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Strong's concordance glosses from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0). Scripture quotations are from the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain.

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