Wild game
צַ֫יִדStrong’s H6718tsayid (tsa-yid)
Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsayid is the Hebrew word usually translated “wild game”, “hunting” and “some of wild game of”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.
“He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.”
Meaning
- Hunting, gamehunting · game hunted
- Provision, foodprovision, food, food-supply
How it's translated
- wild game 5
- hunting 3
- some of wild game of 2
- some of wild game my 1
- from hunting his 1
- hunted game of 1
- provision their 1
- some of provision their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 11
- Joshua 2
- Leviticus 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 25:27And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
- Genesis 25:28And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
- Genesis 27:3Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;
- Genesis 27:5And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
- Genesis 27:7Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death.
- Genesis 27:19And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first born; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Hebrew dictionary
צַ֫יִד tsayid · wild game
1) hunting, game 1a) hunting 1b) game hunted
צַ֫יִד tsayid · food
1) provision, food 1a) provision, food, food-supply
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hunting” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HUNT'ING, participle present
tense Chasing for seizure; pursuing; seeking; searching.
All definitions and other forms of “hunting”
HUNT'ING, noun
The act or practice of pursuing wild animals, for catching or killing them. hunting was originally practiced by men for the purpose of procuring food, as it still is by uncivilized nations. But among civilized men, it is practiced mostly for exercise or diversion, or for the destruction of noxious animals, as in America.
- A pursuit; a seeking.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.