Is Hunter in the Bible? No, but Nimrod and Esau Were Hunters



  • No one named Hunter appears in the Bible, and the name has no Hebrew origin.
  • Hunter comes from an English occupational surname, from Old English hunta, “hunter.”
  • Genesis calls Nimrod “a mighty hunter before the Lord” (Genesis 10:9) and Esau “a skillful hunter, a man of the field” (Genesis 25:27).
  • The Hebrew word for a hunter, tsayyad, occurs once in the Bible, in Jeremiah 16:16.
  • Saint Hubert, bishop of Liège (died 727), is the patron saint of hunters; his feast is 3 November.
  • Hunter rose from 548th among American boys’ names in 1980 to 35th in 2000.

No one named Hunter appears in the Bible. Hunter is an English surname that named a man by his occupation, and it became a common first name in the United States in the 1990s. The Bible does describe two hunters, Nimrod and Esau. Is Hunter a biblical name? No. The name does not occur in the Hebrew or Greek of the Bible, and no translation uses it as a name. In English Bibles the word hunter describes what a man…

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