צוּד

Genesis 27:3 וְצ֥וּדָה and hunt !

Take your weapons—your quiver and bow—and go out into the field to hunt some game for me.

Genesis 27:5 לָצ֥וּד to hunt

Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac told his son Esau. So when Esau went into the field to hunt game and bring it back,

Genesis 27:33 הַצָּֽד־ who hunted

Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”

Leviticus 17:13 יָצ֜וּד he will hunt

And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.

Joshua 9:12 הִצְטַיַּ֤דְנוּ we took as our provisions

This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But look, it is now dry and moldy.

Here: 'We provisioned ourselves (with it)': a rare reflexive verb built from the noun 'travel provisions' (ṣêdāh), the same word the elders used in 9:11. It means packing food for a journey.

Job 10:16 תְּצוּדֵ֑נִי you hunt me

Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

Job 38:39 הֲתָצ֣וּד ¿ will you hunt

Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions

Here: The prefix ha- turns the sentence into a question, and the verb is 'you will hunt / can you hunt'. Coming first, it puts Job in the hunter's role and asks whether he can go out and kill game. It echoes Job's own complaint in 10:16 that God 'hunts' him like a lion.

Psalm 140:11 יְ֝צוּדֶ֗נּוּ let it hunt him

May no slanderer be established in the land; may calamity hunt down the man of violence.

Here: 'Let it hunt him' or 'it will hunt him'. The verb is used for hunting game. The man who laid snares, nets and traps for the psalmist (v. 5) becomes the hunted animal.

Proverbs 6:26 תָצֽוּד׃ פ she hunts

For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

Here: 'She hunts': the picture is a hunter stalking prey. The verb's form describes something she habitually does. In the second line the married woman is the one who acts, and the man is the game.

Jeremiah 16:16 וְצָד֞וּם and they will hunt them

But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.

Here: 'And they will hunt them': stalk, trap and take as prey. The word is used elsewhere for hunting a person's life (1 Sam 24:11; Lam 3:52).

Lamentations 3:52 צ֥וֹד צָד֛וּנִי certainly <to hunt>, they hunted me

Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.

Lamentations 4:18 צָד֣וּ they hunted

They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!

Here: A hunter's word, used for tracking and taking game. The people of Jerusalem describe themselves as prey being tracked by an unnamed 'they', the enemy. The perfect form looks back on what happened.

Ezekiel 13:18 לְצוֹדֵ֣ד תְּצוֹדֵ֣דְנָה to hunt, will you hunt

and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their wrists and make veils for the heads of people of every height, in order to ensnare their souls. Will you ensnare the souls of My people but preserve your own?

Ezekiel 13:20 מְצֹדְד֨וֹת מְצֹדְד֥וֹת [are] hunting

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: See, I am against the magic charms with which you ensnare souls like birds, and I will tear them from your arms. So I will free the souls you have ensnared like birds.

Micah 7:2 יָצ֥וּדוּ they hunt

The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.

Here: The verb for hunting game, as Esau hunted. People treat their kin as prey to be tracked and caught. The plural verb with the singular 'each' gives the sense 'they hunt, every one of them, his brother'.