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# שָׁלַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7997

**spoil** — used 14 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/1513/7997/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁלַל²: vb. spoil, plunder Hithpōʿ. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7997/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. spoil, plunder (usually identif. with I. שׁ׳; NH id. (Jastr, cf. Dalm); Assyrian šalâlu id.; HomChr 33 cp. Sab. תֿלל plunder, connecting this with Arabic ثَلَّةٌ a flock of sheep (or goats); then 𝔗 שְׁלָלָא booty, and (rare) Syriac ܫܶܠܳܠ are loan-words);— Pf. 3 ms. consec. וְשׁ׳ Ez 26:12; 2 ms. שַׁלּוֹתָ Hb 2:8, etc.; Impf. 3 mpl. sf. יְשָׁלּוּךָ v 8; cstr. לִשְׁלֹל Is 10:6 +; Pt. pl. שֹׁלְלִים Zc 2:12, etc.;—spoil, plunder (usually ‖ בָּזַז), c. acc. cogn. שָׁלָל Is 10:6; Ez 29:19; 38:12, 13(×2), acc. חַיִל wealth 26:12; acc. pers., שֹׁלְלִים Je 50:10; Hb 2:8; Ez 39:10, גּוֹיִם רַבִּים Hb 2:8, cf. Zc 2:12. Hithpōʿ. Pf. 3 pl. אֶשְׁתּוֹלְלוּ אַבִּירֵי לֵב (א in אֶשְׁתּ׳ is Aramaic, or scribal error: Ges§ 54 a n., cf. 53 k) ψ 76:6 the stout of heart are spoiled; Pt. מִשְׁתּוֹלֵל Is 59:15 he that departs from evil is one despoiled.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: plunder (4); \[those (2); they will plunder (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 50:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.10/#tree)

וְהָיְתָ֥ה כַשְׂדִּ֖ים לְשָׁלָ֑ל כָּל־שֹׁלְלֶ֥יהָ יִשְׂבָּ֖עוּ נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.become Chaldea (into) plunder all \[those who\].plunder.it they.will.be.satisfied the.utterance of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And Chaldea shall be a spoil; all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD.

[Psalms 76:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.76.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.76.6/#tree)

אֶשְׁתּוֹלְל֨וּ ׀ אַבִּ֣ירֵי לֵ֭ב נָמ֣וּ שְׁנָתָ֑ם וְלֹא־מָצְא֖וּ כָל־אַנְשֵׁי־חַ֣יִל יְדֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* they.were.plundered \[people\].mighty of.heart they.slumbered sleep their and not they.found all \[the\].men of.strength hands their

*JPS 1917:* The stout-hearted are bereft of sense, they sleep their sleep; and none of the men of might have found their hands.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7997.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7997/): 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).