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# מְשִׁסָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4933

**booty** — used 6 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

booty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4933/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְשִׁסָּה²: n.f. booty, plunder Pōʿ. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4933/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. booty, plunder;—abs. מ׳ 2 K 21:14 +, so Is 42:24 Qr (מְשִׁסָּה Gi, מְשִׁיסָּה Baer; Kt משוסה, usually read מְשׁוּסָּה, מְשׁוֹסֶה, v. שׁסה Pōʿ.); pl. abs. מְשִׁסּוֹת Hb 2:7;—plunder, spoil, prey, usually הָיָה לִמ׳ (and ‖ בַּז) 2 K 21:14; Je 30:16; Jb 2:7; Zp 1:13 (‖ שְׁמָמָה), cf. Is 42:22 (v 24 see above).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: plunder (5); plunder(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Habakkuk 2:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.7/#tree)

הֲל֣וֹא פֶ֗תַע יָק֙וּמוּ֙ נֹשְׁכֶ֔יךָ וְיִקְצ֖וּ מְזַעְזְעֶ֑יךָ וְהָיִ֥יתָ לִמְשִׁסּ֖וֹת לָֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* ? not suddenness will.they.arise \[those who\].pay.interest.to.you and will.they.awake? \[those who.will\].make.you.tremble and you.will.become (into) plunder(s) for them

*JPS 1917:* Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall exact interest of thee, and awake that shall violently shake thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

[2 Kings 21:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.21.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.21.14/#tree)

וְנָטַשְׁתִּ֗י אֵ֚ת שְׁאֵרִ֣ית נַחֲלָתִ֔י וּנְתַתִּ֖ים בְּיַ֣ד אֹֽיְבֵיהֶ֑ם וְהָי֥וּ לְבַ֛ז וְלִמְשִׁסָּ֖ה לְכָל־אֹיְבֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.abandon (et) the.remnant my.inheritance my and I will.give.them in the.hand their.enemies their and they.will.become (into) spoil and (into) plunder to all enemies their

*JPS 1917:* And I will cast off the remnant of Mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4933.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4933/): 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).