H7998 - שָׁלָל (shâlâl)

H7998 שָׁלָל (shâlâl) shaw-lawl'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

spoil

Strong's Definition

booty

Derivation: from H7997 (שָׁלַל);

KJV Usage: prey, spoil.

TWOT Reference: 2400a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) prey, plunder, spoil, booty

1a) prey

1b) booty, spoil, plunder (of war)

1c) plunder (private)

1d) gain (meaning dubious)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G684 G724 G4661

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) prey, plunder, spoil, booty 1a) prey 1b) booty, spoil, plunder (of war) 1c) plunder (private) 1d) gain (meaning uncertain)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

שָׁלָל shâlâl BDB Definition: 1) prey, plunder, spoil, booty 1a) prey 1b) booty, spoil, plunder (of war) 1c) plunder (private) 1d) gain (meaning dubious) Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H7997 Same Word by TWOT Number: 2400a Total KJV Occurrences: 73

Bible Occurrences (64)

49:27

15:9

31:11 31:12

2:35 3:7 13:16 20:14

7:21 8:2 8:27 11:14 22:8

5:30 8:24 8:25

14:30 14:32 15:19 15:21 30:16 30:19 30:20 30:22 30:26

3:22 8:12 12:30

3:23

20:2 26:27

14:13 15:11 20:25 24:23 28:8 28:15

3:13 8:11

68:12 119:162

1:13 16:19 31:11

8:4 9:3 10:2 10:6 33:4 33:23 53:12

21:9 38:2 39:18 45:5 49:32 50:10

7:21 29:19 38:12 38:13

11:24

2:9 14:1

Genesis 49:27

Benjamin is a ravenous wolf...; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.

Exodus 15:9

The enemy declared, I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.

Numbers 31:11

and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals.

Numbers 31:12

They brought the captives, spoils, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation... of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab -, by the Jordan across from Jericho.

Deuteronomy 2:35

We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.

Deuteronomy 3:7

But all the livestock and plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves.

Deuteronomy 13:16

And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn... the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. [The city] must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt....

Deuteronomy 20:14

But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city— all its spoil— you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.