בַּזbaz

spoiling, robbery; spoil, booty

Pronunciation: baz · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H957

Meanings

1. spoiling, robbery (Ezekiel 7:21; Ezekiel 23:46)

2. spoil, booty, plunder (Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah 33:23; Ezekiel 29:19)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 25 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 14:3 “Why is the Lord taking us to this country only to have us die in battle? Our wives and our little ones will be carried off as plunder! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”
  • Numbers 14:31 “‘You said your children would be carried off as plunder. Well, I will bring them safely into the land, and they will enjoy what you have despised.
  • Numbers 31:32 The plunder remaining from everything the fighting men had taken totaled 675,000 sheep and goats,
  • Deuteronomy 1:39 I will give the land to your little ones—your innocent children. You were afraid they would be captured, but they will be the ones who occupy it.
  • 2 Kings 21:14 Then I will reject even the remnant of my own people who are left, and I will hand them over as plunder for their enemies.
  • Isaiah 10:6 I am sending Assyria against a godless nation, against a people with whom I am angry. Assyria will plunder them, trampling them like dirt beneath its feet.
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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).