H958 בָּזָא (bâzâʼ) baw-zaw'

Hebrew

Verb (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

to divide

Strong's Definition

probably to cleave

Derivation: a primitive root;

KJV Usage: spoil.

TWOT Reference: 223

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) (Qal) to divide, cleave, cut through

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

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

G3313

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

בָּזָא (ba.za) — to divide. (Qal) to divide, cleave, cut through

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

בזא (H0958)

verb

Non-Whole | verb qal

Collocation: בָּזְאוּ נְהָרִים ארץ

to divide, to separate exact meaning unsure; probably: = causative process by which an object divides another object into separate pieces

ISA 18:2 · ISA 18:7

verb

Move | verb qal

Collocation: בָּזְאוּ נְהָרִים ארץ

to wash away exact meaning unsure; possibly: = the process and result of the overflowing of a river on the land at its margins

ISA 18:2 · ISA 18:7

¹ ISA 18:2 · ISA 18:7 Most modern versions = [1] | HALOT DCH Watts = [2]

Enio R. Mueller

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[בָּזָא] vb. divide, cut through base

Bible Occurrences (2)

18:2 18:7

Isaiah 18:2

which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on... the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely...... feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.

Isaiah 18:7

At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts— from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared...,... from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers— to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.