Chase
Chase
(, , , etc.). The practice of hunting wild animals early prevailed among the nomade Hebrews (Gen 25:28; Gen 27:3 sq.), and continued to later times to be a common employment (Lev 17:13; Pro 12:27; Josephus, War, 1:21, 13), both for the sake of the flesh of the game (Sir 36:21; but in the Sabbatical year it was allowed to multiply, Exo 23:11; Lev 25:7; comp. Michaelis, Mos. Recht, 3:178 sq.), and also for the extermination of noxious beasts (2Sa 23:20), of both which there was no lack in Palestine (see Harmar, 1:328 sq.). The means employed in this pursuit were usually the bow (Gen 27:3), the spear or javelin (comp. Strabo, 15:734), the net (, , ; which was likewise used for the larger kinds of animals, as gazelles, Isa 51:21, and even for lions, Eze 19:8), the sling (, , , 9:12; Psa 91:3), and the pitfall (, , Plin. 10:54; comp. Eze 19:4; 2Sa 23:20), the last especially for the lion (Shaw, Trav. 152 sq.). Compare the description in Job 18:8 sq. They do not appear to have had hunting dogs (yet comp. Joseph. Ant. 4:8, 9), and it is doubtful if in hunting birds they used trained falcons or other species of birds (Elian, Anim. 8:24), although hawks (Harmar, 3:79), like hounds (Odyss. 19:438; Strabo, 5:215; Philostr. Icon. 1:28; Polyb. 31:22; Curt. 9:1, 31; Plin. 8:61; Becker, Charicles, 1:389) were anciently, and, still are universally common in the East (Shaw, Travels, p. 300; Kampfer, Amaen. p. 131). On the Egyptian monuments hunting scenes are frequently represented (Wilkinson, 1:212 sq.). Hunting became an aristocratic sport (Meurs. ad Lycophr. 499) at least in later periods of Jewish history (Josephus, Ant. 15:7, 7; 16:10, 3; see also Philo, 2:356; comp. Heindorf on Horace, Sat. 2:2, 9). Instances occur in which men of strength overcame wild animals even without weapons (Jdg 14:6; 1Sa 17:35). (See Jahn’s Bibl. Archceol. 52.) SEE NIMROD.
The instruments and modes of the chase are sometimes used figuratively, to indicate the wiles of an adversary, great danger, or impending destruction (Psa 9:16; Psa 57:6; Psa 91:3; Psa 94:13; Psa 119:85; Pro 26:27; Isa 24:17; Isa 42:22; Jer 5:26; Jer 6:21; Jer 16:16; Jer 18:22; Jer 48:44; Amo 3:5; Hos 13:14; Luk 21:35; Rom 11:9; 1Co 15:55). SEE HUNTING.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Chase
CHASE.See Hunting.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Chase
chas. See HUNTING.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Chase
Chase. See Hunting.