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# בַּז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H957

**spoiling** — used 25 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

spoiling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/957/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּז²: spoiling, robbery; spoil, booty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/957/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] spoiling, robbery; spoil, booty—בּ׳ abs. Nu 14:3 +; so also Ez 25:7 Qr (Kt בג meaningless); בַּ֑ז Je 2:14 +; but הַבָּ֔ז Nu 31:32 v. d. H.; sf. בִּזָּהּ Ez 29:19;— spoiling, robbery, לְב׳ i.e. to be plundered, despoiled Ez 7:21 (of temple ‖ שָׁלָל) 23:46. spoil, booty, plunder Is 10:6; 33:23 Ez 29:19; 38:12, 13 (all acc. cogn. ‖ שָׁלָל); cf. Nu 31:32 Je 15:13; 17:3; in phr. הָיָה לָבַז Je 49:32 (of camels) Ez 36:4 cf. v 5; also of human beings Nu 14:3, 31 Dt 1:39 Je 2:14 (all היה לב׳) + 2 K 21:14 (‖ מְשִׁסָּה) Is 42:22 (‖ id.) Je 2:14, cf. 30:16 (‖ מְשִׁסָּה); also Ez 25:7 Qr, 26:5 (היה לב׳; both in personif.); fig. of Isr. as sheep Ez 34:8, 22 (both היה לב׳) v 28 היה בז (no לְ). On Is 8:1, 3 מַהֵר שָׁלָל חָשׁ בַּז v. מהר.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 25 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: spoil (16); plunder (6); prey (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 2:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.14/#tree)

הַעֶ֙בֶד֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִם־יְלִ֥יד בַּ֖יִת ה֑וּא מַדּ֖וּעַ הָיָ֥ה לָבַֽז׃

*Word for word:* a slave? \[is\].Israel or? one.born of.\[the\].household \[is\].it why? has.it.become (into) plunder

*JPS 1917:* Is Israel a servant? Is he a home-born slave? Why is he become a prey?

[Ezekiel 34:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.34.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.34.22/#tree)

וְהוֹשַׁעְתִּ֣י לְצֹאנִ֔י וְלֹֽא־תִהְיֶ֥ינָה ע֖וֹד לָבַ֑ז וְשָׁ֣פַטְתִּ֔י בֵּ֥ין שֶׂ֖ה לָשֶֽׂה׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.save (to) flock my and not they.will.become again (into) prey and I.will.judge between a.sheep and a.sheep

*JPS 1917:* therefore will I save My flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/957.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/957/): 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).