tsud · hunt

What it means

tsud (צוּד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hunt”.

Figuratively, hunt people.

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. To track down animals, or pursue someone.
2. To take food for the journey.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• hunt ×10
• hunts ×3
• They have hunted me down ×2
• They have hunted ×1
• when we took it as provision ×1
• who hunted ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Leviticus×1
• Joshua×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×3
• Ezekiel×4
• Micah×1

• Genesis 27:3

  So now, take, please, your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me,

• 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 27:33

  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 9:12

  This bread of ours was hot when we took it as provision from our houses on the day we set out to come to you; and now, look, it is dry and has crumbled.

• Job 10:16

  And if it rises, like a fierce lion you hunt me, and again you work wonders against me.

• Job 38:39

  Can you hunt prey for the lioness, or the appetite of the young lions fill,

• Psalms 140:11

  A man of tongue will not be established on the earth; the man of violence, evil will hunt him with thrust upon thrust.

• Proverbs 6:26

  For on account of a prostitute one comes to a loaf of bread, but another man’s wife hunts the precious soul.

• Jeremiah 16:16

  Look, I am sending for many fishermen, declares YHWH, and they will fish them out; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from upon every mountain and from upon every hill, and from the clefts of the rocks.

• Lamentations 3:52

  They have hunted me down like a bird, my enemies, without cause.

• Lamentations 4:18

  They have hunted our steps so that we cannot walk in our squares; our end has drawn near, our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.

• Ezekiel 13:18

  and say, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Woe to the women who sew pads on all the wrists of my hands, and make the veils for the head of every stature to hunt souls! The souls of my people you hunt, and souls for yourselves you keep alive!

• Ezekiel 13:20

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am against your pads with which you hunt there the souls as birds that fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and I will set free the souls that you hunt, the souls, as birds that fly.

• Micah 7:2

  The faithful one has perished from the earth, and there is no upright one among human beings; all of them lie in wait for blood; each hunts his brother with a net.

And 3 more times.