H961 בִּזָּה (bizzâh) biz-zaw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

plunder

Strong's Definition

booty

Derivation: feminine of H957 (בַּז);

KJV Usage: prey, spoil.

TWOT Reference: 225(?),225b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) spoil, booty

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

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STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

בִּזָּה (biz.zah) — plunder. spoil, booty

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

בִּזָּה (H0961)

noun f · בזז

Objects | ≈ רְכוּשׁ · שָׁלָל

booty, spoil, plunder = all sorts of goods, taken forcibly from an enemy in war

2CH 14:13 · 2CH 25:13 · 2CH 28:14 · EZR 9:7 · NEH 3:36 · EST 9:10 · EST 9:15 · EST 9:16 · DAN 11:24 · DAN 11:33

Enio R. Mueller

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

בִּזָּה n.f. spoil, booty (late) base

Bible Occurrences (10)

14:14 25:13 28:14

9:7

4:4

9:10 9:15 9:16

11:24 11:33

2 Chronicles 14:14

and attacked all the cities around Gerar, because the terror of the LORD had fallen upon them. They plundered all the cities, since there was much plunder there.

2 Chronicles 25:13

Meanwhile the troops that Amaziah had dismissed from battle raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon. They struck down... 3,000 [people]... and carried off a great deal of plunder.

2 Chronicles 28:14

So the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the leaders and all the assembly.

Ezra 9:7

From the days of our fathers to this day, our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities, we and our kings [and] priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the earth [and subjected] to the sword and to captivity, to pillage and humiliation..., as we are this day.

Nehemiah 4:4

Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.

Esther 9:10

They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

Esther 9:15

On the fourteenth... day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men [there], but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

Esther 9:16

The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces also assembled to defend... themselves and rid themselves of their enemies. They killed 75,000 {}...... who hated them, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.