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H7998 שָׁלָל (shâlâl) shaw-lawl'

Hebrew
Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)
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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:

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

שָׁלָל (sha.lal) — spoil. 1) prey, plunder, spoil, booty 1a) prey 1b) booty, spoil, plunder (of war) 1c) plunder (private) 1d) gain (meaning uncertain)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun m · שׁלל

Objects | ≈ בַּז · מַלְקֹוחַ

spoil, plunder, booty = all sorts of goods (including humans and animals), taken forcibly from an enemy in war

GEN 49:27 · EXO 15:9 · NUM 31:11 · NUM 31:12 · DEU 2:35 · DEU 3:7 · DEU 13:17 · DEU 13:17 · DEU 20:14 · DEU 20:14 · JOS 7:21 · JOS 8:2 · JOS 8:27 · JOS 11:14 · JOS 22:8 · JDG 5:30 · JDG 5:30 · JDG 5:30 · JDG 5:30 · JDG 8:24 · JDG 8:25 · 1SA 14:30 · 1SA 14:32 · 1SA 15:19 · 1SA 15:21 · 1SA 30:16 · 1SA 30:19 · 1SA 30:20 · 1SA 30:22 · 1SA 30:26 · 1SA 30:26 · 2SA 3:22 · 2SA 8:12 · 2SA 12:30 · 2KI 3:23 · 1CH 20:2 · 1CH 26:27 · 2CH 14:12 · 2CH 15:11 · 2CH 20:25 · 2CH 20:25 · 2CH 24:23 · 2CH 28:8 · 2CH 28:8 · 2CH 28:15 · EST 3:13 · EST 8:11 · PSA 68:13 · PSA 119:162 · PRO 1:13 · PRO 16:19 · ISA 8:4 · ISA 9:2 · ISA 10:2 · ISA 10:6 · ISA 33:4 · ISA 33:23 · ISA 53:12 · JER 49:32 · JER 50:10 · EZK 7:21 · EZK 29:19 · EZK 38:12 · EZK 38:13 · EZK 38:13 · DAN 11:24 · ZEC 2:13 · ZEC 14:1

Alive

Collocation: נֶפֶשׁ לְשָׁלָל

gain (one's) life, escape with (one's) life literally: (one's) life as spoil; hence: = process by which humans will remain alive as opposed to others who will die a violent death

JER 21:9 · JER 38:2 · JER 39:18 · JER 45:5

Possess

income, gain literally: spoil; hence: = accumulated possessions

PRO 31:11

1 1SA 14:32 MT-K שׁלל | MT-Q הַשָּׁלָל

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

שָׁלָל 75 n.m. prey, spoil, plunder, booty base

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