Hunt
Holman Bible Dictionary [1]
Genesis 10:9 Genesis 21:20 Genesis 25:27 Leviticus 17:13 Deuteronomy 14:3-5
The tools of the hunter include bows and arrows ( Genesis 21:20; Genesis 27:3 ), nets ( Job 18:8; Ezekiel 12:13 ), snares or pitfalls ( Job 18:8 ), if the term does not refer to part of the net (NAS, NIV, REB); traps, snares, ropes ( Job 18:9-10 ). Terror, the pit, and the trap of Isaiah 24:17-18 (also Jeremiah 48:43-44 ) perhaps allude to the Battue method of hunting whereby a group forms a cordon and beats over the earth, driving game into a confined area, pit, or net. Ancient Egyptian carvings depict such methods of hunting.
Hunting for pleasure was a popular pastime of ancient kings. The hunt is a popular motif in the art of the Assyrians, Egyptians, and Phoniceans. The Assyrian reliefs depicting Ashurbanipal's lion hunt are particularly well known. The Old Testament does not mention hunting as a pastime of the kings of Israel or Judah. Josephus did note Herod's love of the hunt.
Most often the hunt is used figuratively. A rare positive image is Jeremiah's picture of God's hunting the scattered exiles to return them to Israel ( Jeremiah 16:16 ). Saul hunted David ( 1 Samuel 24:11 ). Matthew described the Pharisees' plotting “to entrap” Jesus ( Matthew 22:15 ), Luke their “lying in wait” for Him ( Luke 11:54 ). The Pastorals speak of the devil's snare ( 1 Timothy 3:7; 2 Timothy 2:26 ). Ezekiel 13:17-23 pictures women practicing magical arts as fowlers ensnaring the people. In Micah 7:2 the unfaithful are portrayed as hunting each other with nets. The warning of Proverbs 6:5 is to save oneself (from evil) like the gazelle or roe flees the hunter.
Chris Church
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
(2): ( v. i.) To seek; to pursue; to search; - with for or after.
(3): ( n.) The game secured in the hunt.
(4): ( n.) A pack of hounds.
(5): ( v. i.) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
(6): ( v. i.) To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.
(7): ( v. i.) To shift up and down in order regularly.
(8): ( v. t.) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
(9): ( n.) An association of huntsmen.
(10): ( n.) A district of country hunted over.
(11): ( v. t.) To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer.
(12): ( v. t.) To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
(13): ( v. t.) To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
(14): ( v. t.) To drive; to chase; - with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
(15): ( v. t.) To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; - often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence.
King James Dictionary [3]
HUNT,
1. To chase wild animals, particularly quadrupeds, for the purpose of catching them for food, or for the diversion of sportsmen to pursue with hounds for taking, as game as, to hunt stag or a hare. 2. To go in search of, for the purpose of shooting as, to hunt wolves, bears, squirrels or partridges. This is the common use of the word in America. It includes fowling by shooting. 3. To pursue to follow closely.
Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. Psalms 140
4. To use, direct or mange hounds in the chase.
He hunts a pack of dogs.
To hunt out or after, to seek to search for.
To hunt from, to pursue and drive out or away.
To hunt down, to depress to bear down by persecution or violence.
HUNT, To follow the chase. Genesis 27
1. To seek wild animals for game, or for killing them by shooting when noxious with for as, to hunt for bears or wolves to hunt for quails, or for ducks. 2. To seek by close pursuit to search with for.
The adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Proverbs 6
HUNT, n. A chase of wild animals for catching them.
1. A huntsman. Not in use. 2. A pack of hounds. 3. Pursuit chase. 4. A seeking of wild animals of any kind for game as a hunt for squirrels.
