בִּזָּה
bizzâh · H961 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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booty, spoil, plunder
All sorts of goods, taken forcibly from an enemy in war
Examples2 Chronicles 14:14 They destroyed all the cities around Gerar, for the dread of the LORD had fallen on them; and they pillaged all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.
2 Chronicles 25:13 But the troops whom Amaziah sent back, those not going with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck and killed three thousand of them, and plundered a large amount of spoils.
2 Chronicles 28:14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoils before the officers and all the assembly.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- רַבmany, great 2
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- עָזַבto forsake, to leave 1
- בָּזַזto plunder 1
- בָּזַרto distribute 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 8
- לto/for 2
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- σκῦλον skŷlon · G4661 · booty, spoils, plunder
- Greek σκῦλον renders Hebrew בִּזָּה in LXX contexts where both denote material goods taken in warfare or plunder, with σκῦλον emphasizing the concrete stripped items (etymologically "that which is stripped off") while בִּזָּה encompasses the broader concept of war spoil.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Objects001
- The word denotes plunder or spoil seized in battle, as Asa's forces carry away 'a very large amount of plunder' in 2 Chronicles 14:13, fitting this general domain for physical goods and objects.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H961. bizzah בִּזָּה noun feminine spoil, booty (late) — בִּזָּה2Ch 14:13 2Ch 14:9t.; —…
בִּזָּה noun feminine spoil, booty (late) — בִּזָּה2Ch 14:13 2Ch 14:9t.; — spoil, prey, of things 2Ch 28:14; Est 9:10, Est 9:15, Est 9:16, compare 2Ch 14:13; 2Ch 25:13; Dan 11:24 (|| שָׁלָל & רכושׁ); verbal noun, spoiling, ׳בַּב Ezr 9:7; Dan 11:33, compare also ׳לְב Nehemiah 3:36.
בִּזָּיוֺן see below בזה.
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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