Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison." — Genesis 27:3 (ASV)
Thy quiver. —This word does not occur elsewhere, and is rendered in the Targum and Syriac a sword. As it is derived from a root signifying to hang, it probably means, like our word hanger, a sort of knife; but all that we can say for certain is that it was some sort of hunting implement.
Take me some venison. —The Hebrew is hunt me a hunting. “Venison,” the Latin venatio, means anything taken by hunting.