שָׁלָלshâlâl
prey, spoil, plunder, booty
Pronunciation: shaw-lawl' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7998
Meanings
1. prey (Genesis 49:27)
2. booty, spoil (Joshua 7:21; Judges 8:24; Judges 8:25)
3. private plunder (Isaiah 10:2; Proverbs 1:13; Proverbs 16:19)
4. = gain (Proverbs 31:11; Judges 5:30)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 73 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 49:27 “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, devouring his enemies in the morning and dividing his plunder in the evening.”
- Exodus 15:9 “The enemy boasted, ‘I will chase them and catch up with them. I will plunder them and consume them. I will flash my sword; my powerful hand will destroy them.’
- Numbers 31:11 After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals,
- Numbers 31:12 they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.
- Deuteronomy 2:35 We took all the livestock as plunder for ourselves, along with anything of value from the towns we ransacked.
- Deuteronomy 3:7 But we kept all the livestock for ourselves and took plunder from all the towns.
See every passage
- Genesis 49:27
- Exodus 15:9
- Numbers 31:11, 31:12
- Deuteronomy 2:35, 3:7, 13:16, 20:14
- Joshua 7:21, 8:2, 8:27, 11:14, 22:8
- Judges 5:30, 8:24, 8:25
- 1 Samuel 14:30, 14:32, 15:19, 15:21, 30:16, 30:19, 30:20, 30:22, 30:26
- 2 Samuel 3:22, 8:12, 12:30
- 2 Kings 3:23
- 1 Chronicles 20:2, 26:27
- 2 Chronicles 14:13, 15:11, 20:25, 24:23, 28:8, 28:15
- Esther 3:13, 8:11
- Psalms 68:12, 119:162
- Proverbs 1:13, 16:19, 31:11
- Isaiah 8:4, 9:3, 10:2, 10:6, 33:4, 33:23, 53:12
- Jeremiah 21:9, 38:2, 39:18, 45:5, 49:32, 50:10
- Ezekiel 7:21, 29:19, 38:12, 38:13
- Daniel 11:24
- Zechariah 2:9, 14:1
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).