tsayid · game

What it means

tsayid (צַיִד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “game”.

What is hunted; hunting.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What is hunted.
2. The food people live on: what is carried and eaten.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• game ×9
• hunter ×2
• hunting ×2
• provision ×2
• prey ×1
• provisions ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×11
• Leviticus×1
• Joshua×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1

• Genesis 10:9

  He was a mighty hunter before YHWH; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before YHWH.”

• Genesis 25:27

  The boys grew up, and Esau became a man skilled in hunting, a man of the field, while Jacob was a man of integrity, living in tents.

• Genesis 25:28

  Isaac loved Esau, because game was to his taste, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

• Genesis 27:5

  Now Rebekah was listening while Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt game and to bring it.

• Genesis 27:7

  ‘Bring me game and make me tasty food, so that I may eat and bless you before YHWH before my death.’

• Genesis 27:19

  Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Get up, please, sit and eat of my game, so that you may bless me.”

• Genesis 27:25

  He said, “Bring it near to me, and let me eat of the game of my son, so that I may bless you.” So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.

• Genesis 27:30

  As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had only just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

• Genesis 27:31

  He also made tasty food and brought it to his father, and he said to his father, “Let my father get up and eat of his son’s game, so that you may bless me.”

• Genesis 27:33

  Isaac trembled with a great trembling, exceedingly, and said, “Who then was he who hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate of all before you came, and I blessed him? Indeed, he will be blessed.”

• Leviticus 17:13

  And any man of the sons of Israel or of the resident aliens who reside among them, who hunts game, an animal or a bird that may be eaten, shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust.

• Joshua 9:14

  The men took of their provision, but they did not ask the mouth of YHWH.

• Nehemiah 13:15

  In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in the heaps and loading them on the donkeys, and also wine, grapes, and figs, and every kind of burden, and bringing them into Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath; and I testified on the day they sold provisions.

• Job 38:41

  Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young cry for help to El and wander without food?

• Psalms 132:15

  Its provision I will abundantly bless; its needy I will satisfy with bread.

• Proverbs 12:27

  Slackness does not roast its game, but the precious wealth of a man is the diligent one.

And 1 more times.