KJV dictionary & concordance
To pursue or search for, especially game, in order to catch or kill.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 27:5
Complete exact-word concordance
And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his sonne: and Esau went to the fielde to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the Lord: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seeke a flea, as when one doeth hunt a partridge in the mountaines.
Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
Wilt thou hunt the pray for the lyon? or fill the appetite of the young lyons,
1611 marginal noteHeb. the life.
1611 marginal notePsal. 104.21.
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Let not an euill speaker bee established in the earth: euill shall hunt the violent man to ouerthrow him.
1611 marginal noteHeb. a man of tongue: or, an euill speaker, a wicked man of violence be established in the earth: let him be hunted to his ouerthrow.
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
For by meanes of a whorish woman, a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteresse will hunt for the precious life.
1611 marginal noteHeb. the woman of a man, or a mans wife.
¶ 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.
¶ Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shal fish them, and after will I send for manie hunters, and they shall hunt them from euery mountaine, and from euery hill, and out of the holes of the rockes.
They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
They hunt our steps that we cannot goe in our streets: our end is neere, our dayes are fulfilled, for our ende is come.
And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you?
And say, Thus saith the LORD God; Woe to the women that sow pillowes to all arme holes, and make kerchiefes vpon the head of euery stature to hunt soules: Will ye hunt the soules of my people, and will yee saue the soules aliue that come vnto you?
1611 marginal noteOr, elbowes.
Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.
Wherefore thus sayth the LORD God, Behold, I am against your pillowes, wherewith yee there hunt the soules to make them flie, and I will teare them from your armes, and will let the soules goe, euen the soules that ye hunt to make them flie.
1611 marginal noteOr, into gardens.
The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
The good man is perished out of the earth, and there is none vpright among men: they all lie in waite for blood: they hunt euery man his brother with a net.
1611 marginal noteOr, godly, or mercifull.
1611 marginal notePsal.12.3. isai.57.1.
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