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Lexicon :: Strong's H957 - baz

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בַּז
Transliteration
baz
Pronunciation
baz
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 225a

Strong’s Definitions

בַּז baz, baz; from H962; plunder:—booty, prey, spoil(-ed).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 25x

The KJV translates Strong's H957 in the following manner: prey (18x), spoil (4x), spoiled (2x), booty (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 25x
The KJV translates Strong's H957 in the following manner: prey (18x), spoil (4x), spoiled (2x), booty (1x).
  1. spoil, booty, robbery, spoiling

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בַּז baz, baz; from H962; plunder:—booty, prey, spoil(-ed).
STRONGS H957: Abbreviations
בַּז noun [masculine] spoiling, robbery; spoil, booty — בּ׳ absolute Numbers 14:3 +; so also H897 Ezekiel 25:7 Qr (Kt בג meaningless); בַּ֑ז Jeremiah 2:14 +; but הַבָּ֔ז Numbers 31:32 see d. H; suffix בִּזָּהּ Exodus 29:19; —
1. spoiling, robbery, לְב׳ i.e. to be plundered, despoiled Ezekiel 7:21 (of temple || שָׁלָל) Ezekiel 23:46.
2. spoil, booty, plunder Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah 33:23; Ezekiel 29:19; Ezekiel 38:12, 13 (all accusative of congnate meaning with verb || שָׁלָל); compare Numbers 31:32; Jeremiah 15:13; Jeremiah 17:3; in phrase הָיָה לָבַז Jeremiah 49:32 (of camels) Ezekiel 36:4 compare Ezekiel 36:5; also of human beings Numbers 14:3, 31; Deuteronomy 1:39; Jeremiah 2:14 (all היה לב׳) + 2 Kings 21:14 (|| מְשִׁסָּה) Isaiah 42:22 (|| id.) Jeremiah 2:14, compare Jeremiah 30:16 (|| מְשִׁסָּה); also Ezekiel 25:7 Qr, Ezekiel 26:5 (היה לב׳; both in personified); figurative of Israel as sheep Ezekiel 34:8, 22 (both היה לב׳) Ezekiel 34:28 היה בז (no לְ). On Isaiah 8:1, 3מַהֵר שָׁלָל חָשׁ בַּז see מהר.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

29:19

Numbers

14:3; 14:3; 14:31; 31:32; 31:32

Deuteronomy

1:39

2 Kings

21:14

Isaiah

8:1; 8:3; 10:6; 33:23; 42:22

Jeremiah

2:14; 2:14; 2:14; 15:13; 17:3; 30:16; 49:32

Ezekiel

7:21; 23:46; 25:7; 25:7; 26:5; 29:19; 34:8; 34:22; 34:28; 36:4; 36:5; 38:12; 38:13

H957

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H957 matches the Hebrew בַּז (baz),
which occurs 25 times in 25 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:3 - “Why is the LORD bringing us to this land [of Canaan], to fall by the sword? Our wives and [fn]children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:31 - ‘But your children whom you said would become plunder, I will bring in, and they will know the land which you have despised and rejected.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:32 -

The plunder that remained from the spoil of war which the warriors had taken, was 675,000 sheep,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:39 - ‘Moreover, your little ones whom you said would become prey, and your sons, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall enter Canaan, and I will give it to them and they shall possess it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:14 - ‘I will abandon the remnant (remainder) of My inheritance and hand them over to their enemies; and they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 -

I send Assyria against a godless nation

And commission it against the people of My wrath

To take the spoil and to seize the plunder,

And to trample them down like mud in the streets.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:23 -

Your ship’s ropes (tackle) hang loose;

They cannot hold the base of their mast firmly,

Nor spread out the sail.

Then an abundance of spoil and plunder will be divided;

Even the lame will take the plunder.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:22 -

But this is a people despoiled and plundered;

All of them are trapped in holes,

Or are hidden away in prisons.

They have become a prey with no one to rescue them,

And a spoil, with no one to say, “Give them back!”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:14 -

“Is Israel a servant? Is he a slave by birth?

Why has he become a captive and a prey?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:13 -

“Your [nation’s] riches and your treasures

I will give as plunder without price [to the Babylonians],

Because of all your sins

And within all your territories.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:3 -

O [Jerusalem] My mountain in the countryside,

I will give [to the Babylonians, as the cost of your sin] your wealth and all your treasures as plunder,

And throughout your territory, your high places of sin.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:16 -

‘Therefore all who devour you will be devoured;

And all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity.

And they who plunder you will become plunder,

And all who prey upon you I will give for prey.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:32 -

“Their camels will become plunder,

And their herds of cattle a spoil;

And I will scatter to all the [four] winds those who cut the corners of their hair [as evidence of their idolatry],

And I will bring their disaster from every side,” says the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:21 - ‘I will give it into the hands of strangers (Babylonians) as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they shall profane it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:46 -

“For thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Bring up a horde (mob) against them and hand them over to terror and plunder.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:7 - therefore, behold, I have stretched out My hand against you and will hand you over as prey and spoil to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will cause you to perish from the countries; I will destroy you. Then you shall know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:5 - ‘Her island in the midst of the sea will become a dry place to spread nets, for I have spoken,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘and she will become a prey and a spoil for the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:19 - Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he will carry off her wealth and capture her spoil and seize her plunder; and it shall be the wages for his army.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:8 - “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “certainly because My flock has become prey, My flock has even become food for every predator of the field for lack of a shepherd, and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but rather the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:22 - therefore, I will rescue My flock, and they shall no longer be prey; and I will judge between one sheep [ungodly] and another [godly].
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:28 - “They will no longer be prey to the nations, and the predators of the earth will not devour them; but they will live safely, and no one will make them afraid [in the [fn]day of the Messiah’s reign].
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:4 - ‘Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, to the desolate ruins and to the deserted cities which have become prey and a mockery to the rest of the nations which surround you,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:5 - therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Most certainly in the fire of My jealousy (love for that which is Mine) I have spoken against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who appropriated My land for themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and with uttermost contempt, so that they might empty it out [and possess it] as prey.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12 - to take spoil and seize plunder, to turn your hand against the ruins which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who live at the [fn]center of the world [Israel].’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:13 - “Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish (southern Spain), with all its young lions (villages) will say to you, ‘Have you come to take spoil? Have you assembled your hordes [of fighting men] to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take great spoil?’”’
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