בָּזַז
bâzaz · H962 · Hebrew · 43 occurrences
Meanings
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to plunder, to pillage, to loot
Action by which humans take all sorts of goods (including people and animals) by force from an enemy in war
ExamplesGenesis 34:27 Jacob’s sons came upon those killed and looted the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Genesis 34:29 and they captured and looted all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives, even everything that was in the houses.
Deuteronomy 2:35 “We took only the animals as our plunder, and the spoils of the cities which we had captured.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
37 occurrences in 15 groups
- Not stated: they 13
- Not stated (infinitive) 6
- Not stated: we 3
- Not stated: you (more than one) 3
- Other words · 11 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
31 occurrences in 19 groups
- שָׁלָלspoil, plunder, booty 9
- בְּהֵמָהanimal, livestock 7
- בַּזspoil 5
- Other words · 16 groups that occur once or twice (21) 21
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
9 occurrences in 9 groups
- Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (11) 11
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יַחַדtogether 1
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- נוּour 1
- ךְyou 1
- הֶםthem 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
- בָּזַזto plunder 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 4
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
- Possess002003002019
- The verb means to plunder or seize as one's own, as Jacob's sons loot the city and take its wealth and flocks as possessions in Genesis 34:27-29, fitting this domain's sense of acquiring or coming to possess something, here by force.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H962. bazaz בָּזַז verb spoil, plunder (Arabic , Aramaic ; Amharic perhaps Ethiopic…
בָּזַז verb spoil, plunder (Arabic , Aramaic ; Amharic perhaps Ethiopic rescue PräBAS i. 33) —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular וּבָזַז (consecutive) Eze 29:19; Eze 29:3plural בָּֽזְַזוּ Num 31:53 Num 31:7t.; בָּזָ֑זוּ Num 31:9; suffix וּבְזָזוּם consecutive Jer 20:5; Jer 20:1plural בָּזַזְנוּ Deu 2:35; בַּזּוֺנוּ Deu 3:7; Imperfect2masculine singular תָּבֹז Deu 20:14, plural יָ֫בֹזּוּ Isa 10:2 Isa 10:2t.; וַיָּ֫בֹזּוּ Gen 34:27 Gen 34:4t.; suffix יְבָזּוּם Zep 2:9; Zep 2:2masculine plural תָּבֹ֫זוּ Jos 8:2; Jos 8:1plural cohortative נָבֹ֫זָה 1Sa 14:36 (compare Ges§ 67 R. 11); Imperative בֹּ֫זּוּ Nah 2:10 (twice in verse); Infinitive construct בֹּז Isa 10:6 Isa 10:3t.; בּוֺז Est 3:13; Est 8:11; Participle active plural בְֹּזַזִים Isa 42:24; 2Ch 20:25; suffix בְֹּזַזַיִךְ Jer 30:16, בְֹּזַזֵינוּ Isa 17:14, בְֹּזַזֵיהֶם Eze 39:10; passive בָּזוּז Isa 42:22; — spoil = take as spoil, with accusative of thing Num 31:9; Deu 2:35 (with לְ & reflexive suffix) Jer 20:5; Eze 26:12; Nah 2:10; Psa 109:11; oftener with accusative of congnate meaning with verb, בַּז Num 31:32; Isa 10:6 (|| שָׁלָל שָׁלַל, as often) Isa 33:23; Eze 29:19; Eze 38:12-13, בִּזָּה2Ch 25:13; שָׁלָל Deu 3:7; Deu 20:14 (both followed by לְ with reflexive suffix) 2Ch 20:25 (twice in verse); 2Ch 28:8; Est 3:13; Est 8:11; בהמה & שׁלל Jos 8:2, Jos 8:27; Jos 11:14 (all followed by לְ with reflexive suffix); object person carried off (compare בַּז) Gen 34:29 (ᵑ0, but compare Ol); plunder, despoil, with accusative of person robbed Isa 10:2; Isa 11:14; Isa 17:14 (שׁסה) Isa 42:22 (|| id.) Zep 2:9; Jer 30:16; Eze 39:10 (twice in verse); with בָּהֶם (person) 1Sa 14:36; with accusative of place plundered Gen 34:27; 2Ki 7:16; 2Ch 14:13; absolute Num 31:53; Isa 42:24.
Niph`al Perfect וְנָבֹ֫זוּ consecutive Amo 3:11; Imperfect2masculine singular תִּבּוֺז Isa 24:3; Infinitive absolute הִבּוֺז Isa 24:3 — be spoiled, plundered, subject ארמנות Amo 3:11; הארץ Isa 24:3; תִּבּוֺז הִבּוֺז (|| תִּבּוֺק הִבּוֺק).
Pu`al Perfect וּבֻזָּ֑זוּ consecutive Jer 50:37 — be taken as spoil, subject אוצרת.
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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