בָּזַזbâzaz
spoil, plunder
Pronunciation: baw-zaz' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H962
Meanings
Qal: = take as spoil (Ezekiel 29:19; Numbers 31:53; Numbers 31:9)
Niph`al: be spoiled, plundered (Amos 3:11; Isaiah 24:3)
Pu`al: be taken as spoil (Jeremiah 50:37)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 43 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 34:27 Meanwhile, the rest of Jacob’s sons arrived. Finding the men slaughtered, they plundered the town because their sister had been defiled there.
- Genesis 34:29 They looted all their wealth and plundered their houses. They also took all their little children and wives and led them away as captives.
- Numbers 31:9 Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder.
- Numbers 31:32 The plunder remaining from everything the fighting men had taken totaled 675,000 sheep and goats,
- Numbers 31:53 All the fighting men had taken some of the plunder for themselves.
- Deuteronomy 2:35 We took all the livestock as plunder for ourselves, along with anything of value from the towns we ransacked.
See every passage
- Genesis 34:27, 34:29
- Numbers 31:9, 31:32, 31:53
- Deuteronomy 2:35, 3:7, 20:14
- Joshua 8:2, 8:27, 11:14
- 1 Samuel 14:36
- 2 Kings 7:16
- 2 Chronicles 14:14, 20:25, 25:13, 28:8
- Esther 3:13, 8:11
- Psalms 109:11
- Isaiah 10:2, 10:6, 11:14, 17:14, 24:3, 33:23, 42:22, 42:24
- Jeremiah 20:5, 30:16, 50:37
- Ezekiel 26:12, 29:19, 38:12, 38:13, 39:10
- Amos 3:11
- Nahum 2:9
- Zephaniah 2:9
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).