קְנִיגִין, (κυνήγιον) same, hunt, chase, beasts of chase. Esth. R. to I, 12 אין הרשע … מראה ק׳ דידיה היאך וכ׳ the wicked man does not leave this world before God shows his chase, (that is,) how he has been caught. Lev. R. s. 13 בהמות … הם ק׳ וכ׳ (not קניגון) Behemoth and Leviathan shall be the beasts of contest (the show) for the righteous in the hereafter, and whosoever abstains from witnessing the beast fights of the nations in this world, shall be admitted to see them &c.; Yalk. Sam. 161 קניגיון.