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# בָּזַז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H962

**spoil** — used 43 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

spoil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/962/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּזַז: vb. spoil, plunder [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/962/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. spoil, plunder (Arabic بَزّ, Aramaic ܒܰܙ; Amhar. በዘበዘ: also Ethiopic ቤዘወ: rescue PräBAS i. 33)— Pf. 3 ms. וּבָזַז (consec.) Ez 29:19; 3 pl. בָּֽזֲזוּ Nu 31:53 + 7 times; בָּזָ֑זוּ Nu 31:9; sf. וּבְזָזוּם consec. Je 20:5; 1 pl. בָּזַזְנוּ Dt 2:35; בַּזּוֹנוּ 3:7; Impf. 2 ms. תָּבֹז Dt 20:14, pl. יָבֹ֫זּוּ Is 10:2 + 2 times; וַיָּבֹ֫זּוּ Gn 34:27 + 4 times; sf. יְבָזּוּם Zp 2:9; 2 mpl. תָּבֹ֫זּוּ Jos 8:2; 1 pl. cohort. נָבֹ֫זָה 1 S 14:36 (cf. Ges§ 67 R. 11); Imv. בֹּ֫זּוּ Na 2:10(×2); Inf. cstr. בֹּז Is 10:6 + 3 times; בּוֹז Est 3:13; 8:11; Pt. act. pl. בֹּֽזֲזִים Is 42:24 2 Ch 20:25; sf. בֹּֽזֲזַיִךְ Je 30:16, בֹּֽזֲזֵינוּ Is 17:14, בֹּֽזֲזֵיהֶם Ez 39:10; pass. בָּזוּז Is 42:22;—spoil = take as spoil, c. acc. rei Nu 31:9 Dt 2:35 (c. לְ & refl. suff.) Je 20:5 Ez 26:12 Na 2:10 ψ 109:11; oftener c. acc. cogn., בַּז Nu 31:32 Is 10:6 (‖ שָׁלַל שָׁלָל, as often) 33:23 Ez 29:19; 38:12, 13; בִּזָּה 2 Ch 25:13; שָׁלָל Dt 3:7; 20:14 (both sq. לְ c. refl. suff.) 2 Ch 20:25(×2); 28:8 Est 3:13; 8:11; בהמה & שׁלל Jos 8:2, 27; 11:14 (all sq. לְ c. refl. suff.); obj. pers. carried off (cf. בַּז) Gn 34:29 (MT, but cf. Ol); plunder, despoil, c. acc. pers. robbed Is 10:2; 11:14; 17:14 (שׁסה) 42:22 (‖ id.) Zp 2:9 Je 30:16 Ez 39:10(×2); c. בָּהֶם (pers.) 1 S 14:36; c. acc. of place plundered Gn 34:27 2 K 7:16 2 Ch 14:13; abs. Nu 31:53 Is 42:24. Pf. וְנָבֹ֫זּוּ consec. Am 3:11; Impf. 2 ms. תִּבּוֹז Is 24:3; Inf. abs. הִבּוֹז Is 24:3—be spoiled, plundered, subj. ארמנות Am 3:11; הארץ Is 24:3; הִבּוֹז תִּבּוֹז (‖ הִבּוֹק תִּבּוֹק). Pf. וּבֻזָּ֑ווּ consec. Je 50:37—be taken as spoil, subj. אוצרת.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 39 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they plundered (9); \[those (3); plunder (3).

## In the verses

[Numbers 31:53](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.53/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.53/#tree)

אַנְשֵׁי֙ הַצָּבָ֔א בָּזְז֖וּ אִ֥ישׁ לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* the.men of the.army they.had.taken.plunder everyone for himself

*JPS 1917:* For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself. —

[Deuteronomy 3:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.3.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.3.7/#tree)

וְכָל־הַבְּהֵמָ֛ה וּשְׁלַ֥ל הֶעָרִ֖ים בַּזּ֥וֹנוּ לָֽנוּ׃

*Word for word:* and all the livestock and the.booty of the.cities we.plundered for ourselves

*JPS 1917:* But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/962.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/962/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).