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# שָׁסַס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8155

**plunder** — 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

plunder [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8155/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁסַס: vb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8155/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. id. (‖ form of שׁסה);— Pf. 3 pl. שַׁסֻּ֫הוּ ψ 89:42 they have plundered him; Impf. 3 mpl. וַיָּשֹׁ֫סּוּ Ju 2:14 (acc. pers.); 1 S 17:53 (acc. loc.); Pt. sf. שֹׁאֲסַיִךְ Je 30:16; Kt (Qr v. שׁסה), Aramaic form, Ges§ 67 s. be plundered, rifled, of houses: Pf. 3 pl. consec. וְנָשַׁ֫סּוּ Zc 14:2; Impf. 3 mpl. יִשַּׁ֫סּוּ Is 13:16.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they plundered (2); they will be plundered (2); \[those (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 89:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.42/#tree)

שַׁ֭סֻּהוּ כָּל־עֹ֣בְרֵי דָ֑רֶךְ הָיָ֥ה חֶ֝רְפָּ֗ה לִשְׁכֵנָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* they have.plundered.him all \[those.who\].pass.by of.\[the\].road he.has.become a.reproach to neighbors his

*JPS 1917:* All that pass by the way spoil him; he is become a taunt to his neighbours.

[1 Samuel 17:53](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.53/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.53/#tree)

וַיָּשֻׁ֙בוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מִדְּלֹ֖ק אַחֲרֵ֣י פְלִשְׁתִּ֑ים וַיָּשֹׁ֖סּוּ אֶת־מַחֲנֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and they.returned the.people of.Israel from hotly.pursuing after \[the\].Philistines and they.plundered (et) camps their

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their camp.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8155.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8155/): 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).