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Sommario
- 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.
Bibliografia (Clicca per mostrare)
- Behind the Name, “Hunter,” with United States popularity figures from Social Security Administration data. https://www.behindthename.com/name/hunter
- Wiktionary, “hunter,” etymology and translations. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hunter
- Strong’s Hebrew 6718 (tsayid), 6719 (tsayyad) and 6679 (tsud), with Brown-Driver-Briggs, and the Hebrew text of Genesis 10:9 and 25:27, Bible Hub. https://biblehub.com/hebrew/6719.htm
- Flavio Giuseppe, Antichità giudaiche, book 1, chapter 4, translated by William Whiston, Project Gutenberg. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2848
- “Hubert of Liège,” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_of_Li%C3%A8ge
- Scripture quotations: Genesis 10:8–9; 25:27–28; Leviticus 17:13; Jeremiah 16:16; Hebrews 12:16, English Standard Version. References: Genesis 10:10–11; 25:29–34; 27:3–30. Young’s Literal Translation for the literal sense of Genesis 10:9 and 25:27.
