H957 בַּז (baz) baz

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

plunder

Strong's Definition

plunder

Derivation: from H962 (בָּזַז);

KJV Usage: booty, prey, spoil(-ed).

TWOT Reference: 225a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) spoil, booty, robbery, spoiling

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

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

G1283 G4661

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

בַּז (baz) — plunder. spoil, booty, robbery, spoiling Also means: bag (בַּג "spoil" H0897)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

בַּז (H0957)

noun m · מַהֵר שָׁלָל חָשׁ בַּז

Objects | ≈ רְכוּשׁ · שָׁלָל

spoil, plunder, booty = all sorts of goods, taken forcibly from an enemy in war

NUM 14:3 · NUM 14:31 · NUM 31:32 · DEU 1:39 · 2KI 21:14 · ISA 10:6 · ISA 33:23 · ISA 42:22 · JER 2:14 · JER 15:13 · JER 17:3 · JER 30:16 · JER 49:32 · EZK 7:21 · EZK 23:46 · EZK 25:7 · EZK 26:5 · EZK 29:19 · EZK 34:8 · EZK 34:22 · EZK 34:28 · EZK 36:4 · EZK 36:5 · EZK 38:12 · EZK 38:13

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

בַּז n.[m.] spoiling, robbery; spoil, booty spoiling, robbery

spoil, booty, plunder

base

Bible Occurrences (24)

14:3 14:31 31:32

1:39

21:14

10:6 33:23 42:22

2:14 15:13 17:3 30:16 49:32

7:21 23:46 26:5 29:19 34:8 34:22 34:28 36:4 36:5 38:12 38:13

Numbers 14:3

Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

Numbers 14:31

But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected — and they will enjoy it.

Numbers 31:32

[and] this plunder remained from the spoils the soldiers... had taken: 675,000 {}.................. sheep,

Deuteronomy 1:39

And the little ones you said would become captives — your children who on that day did not know good from evil — will enter [the land that] I will give them, and they will possess it.

2 Kings 21:14

So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,

Isaiah 10:6

I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down... like clay in the streets.

Isaiah 33:23

Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast... or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, [and even] the lame will carry off plunder....

Isaiah 42:22

But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons.... They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, Send them back!