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Hunter

צַיָּדStrong’s H6719

tsayyad (tsay-yad)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Tsayyad is the Hebrew word usually translated “hunters”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.”
Jeremiah 16:16 KJV
Meaning
  1. Hunter
How it's translated
  • hunters 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Jeremiah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    צַיָּד tsayyad · hunter

    hunter

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “hunter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    HUNT'ER, noun

    One who pursues wild animals with a view to take them, either for sport or for food.

    1. A dog that scents game, or is employed in the chase.
    2. A horse used in the chase.

    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.