בַּז
baz · H957 · Hebrew · 25 occurrences
Meanings
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spoil, plunder, booty
All sorts of goods, taken forcibly from an enemy in war
ExamplesDeuteronomy 1:39 ‘Moreover, your little ones who, you said, would become plunder, and your sons, who this day have no knowledge of good and evil, shall enter there, and I will give it to them and they shall take possession of it.
2 Kings 21:14 ‘And I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and hand them over to their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoils to all their enemies,
Isaiah 10:6 I send it against a godless nation And commission it against the people of My fury To capture spoils and to seize plunder, And to trample them down like mud in the streets.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הּher 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בָּזַזto plunder 1
What is done to itIt is the object
6 occurrences in 2 groups
- בָּזַזto plunder 5
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִגְרָשׁpasture land, open land 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
18 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 32
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יֶתֶרremainder 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Objects001
- The word denotes plunder or spoil taken in war, the seized goods and possessions described as becoming the Israelites' 'plunder' in Numbers 14:3, fitting this general domain for physical objects and goods.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H957. baz בַּז noun [masculine] spoiling, robbery; spoil, booty — ׳בּ absolute Num 14:3…
בַּז noun [masculine] spoiling, robbery; spoil, booty — ׳בּ absolute Num 14:3 +; so also Eze 25:7 Qr (Kt בג meaningless); בַּ֑ז Jer 2:14 +; but הַבָּ֔ז Num 31:32 see d. H; suffix בִּזָּהּ Exo 29:19; —
1 spoiling, robbery, ׳לְב i.e. to be plundered, despoiled Eze 7:21 (of temple || שָׁלָל) Eze 23:46.
2 spoil, booty, plunder Isa 10:6; Isa 33:23; Eze 29:19; Eze 38:12-13, (all accusative of congnate meaning with verb || שָׁלָל); compare Num 31:32; Jer 15:13; Jer 17:3; in phrase לָבַז הָיָה Jer 49:32 (of camels) Eze 36:4 compare Eze 36:5; also of human beings Num 14:3, Num 14:31; Deu 1:39; Jer 2:14 (all לב ׳היה) + 2Ki 21:14 (|| מְשִׁסָּה) Isa 42:22 (|| id.) Jer 2:14, compare Jer 30:16 (|| מְשִׁסָּה); also Eze 25:7 Qr, Eze 26:5 (לב ׳היה; both in personified); figurative of Israel as sheep Eze 34:8, Eze 34:22 (both לב ׳היה) Eze 34:28 בז היה (no לְ). On Isa 8:1, Isa 8:3בַּז חָשׁ שָׁלָל מַהֵר see מהר.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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