בִּזָּהbizzâh

spoil, booty, spoil, prey (2 Chronicles 14:13; 2 Chronicles 28:14; Esther 9:10; Esther 9:15; Esther 9:16)

Pronunciation: biz-zaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H961

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 10 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Chronicles 14:14 While they were at Gerar, they attacked all the towns in that area, and terror from the Lord came upon the people there. As a result, a vast amount of plunder was taken from these towns, too.
  • 2 Chronicles 25:13 Meanwhile, the hired troops that Amaziah had sent home raided several of the towns of Judah between Samaria and Beth-horon. They killed 3,000 people and carried off great quantities of plunder.
  • 2 Chronicles 28:14 So the warriors released the prisoners and handed over the plunder in the sight of the leaders and all the people.
  • Ezra 9:7 From the days of our ancestors until now, we have been steeped in sin. That is why we and our kings and our priests have been at the mercy of the pagan kings of the land. We have been killed, captured, robbed, and disgraced, just as we are today.
  • Nehemiah 4:4 Then I prayed, “Hear us, our God, for we are being mocked. May their scoffing fall back on their own heads, and may they themselves become captives in a foreign land!
  • Esther 9:10 the ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. But they did not take any plunder.
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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).