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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:3 - Would we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness, would we had died! and why does the Lord bring us into this land to fall in war? our wives and our children shall be for a prey: now then it is better to return into Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:31 - And your little ones, who ye said should be a prey, them will I bring into the land; and they shall inherit the land, [fn]which ye rejected.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:32 - And that which remained of the spoil which the warriors took, was—of the sheep, six hundred and seventy-five thousand:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:39

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:39 - And every young child who this day knows not good or evil,—they shall enter therein, and to them I will give it, and they shall inherit it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:14 - And I will reject the remnant of my inheritance, and will deliver them into the hands of their enemies; and they shall be for a plunder and for a spoil to all their enemies:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 - I will send my wrath against a sinful nation, and I will charge my people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make them dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:23 - Thy cords are broken, for they had no strength: thy mast has given way, it shall not spread the sails, it shall not bear a signal, until it be given up for plunder; therefore shall many lame men take spoil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:22 - And I beheld, and the people were spoiled and plundered: for there is a snare in the secret chambers everywhere, and in the houses also, where they have hidden them: they became a spoil, and there was no one that delivered the prey, and there was none who said, Restore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:14 - Is Israel a servant, or a home-born slave? why has he become a spoil?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:13 - Yea, I will give thy treasures for a spoil as a recompence, because of all thy sins, and that in all thy borders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:16 - (LXX 37:16) Therefore all that devour thee shall be eaten, and all thine enemies shall eat all their own flesh. Thy sins have abounded beyond the multitude of thine iniquities, therefore they have done these things to thee. And they that spoil thee shall become a spoil, and I will give up to be plundered all that have plundered thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:32 - (LXX 30:27) And their camels shall be a spoil, and the multitude of their cattle shall be destroyed: and I will scatter them as chaff with every wind, having their hair cut about their foreheads, I will bring on their overthrow from all sides, saith the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:21 - And I will deliver them into the hands of strangers to make them a prey, and to the pests of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:46

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:46 - Thus saith the Lord God, Bring up a multitude upon them, and send trouble and plunder into the midst of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:7 - therefore I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee a spoil to the nations; and I will utterly destroy thee from among the peoples, and I will completely cut thee off from out of the countries: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:5 - She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for repairing nets: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord: and it shall be a spoil for the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:19 - Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will give to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon the land of Egypt, and he shall take the plunder thereof, and seize the spoils thereof; and it shall be a reward for his army.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:8 - As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became meat to all the wild beasts of the field, because there were no shepherds, and the shepherds sought not out my sheep, and the shepherds fed themselves, but fed not my sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:22 - Therefore I will save my sheep, and they shall not be any more for a prey; and will judge between ram and ram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:28 - And they shall no more be a spoil to the nations, and the wild beasts of the land shall no more at all devour them; and they shall dwell safely, and there shall be none to make them afraid.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:4 - therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord to the mountains, and to the hills, and to the streams, and to the valleys, and to the places that have been made desolate and destroyed, and to the cities that have been deserted, and have become a spoil and a trampling to the nations that were left round about;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:5 - therefore thus saith the Lord; Verily in the fire of my wrath have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Idumea, because they have appropriated my land to themselves for a possession with joy, disregarding the lives of the inhabitants, to destroy it by plunder:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12 - to seize plunder, and to take their spoil; to turn my hands against the desolate land that is now inhabited, and against a nation that is gathered from many nations, that have acquired property, dwelling in the midst of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:13 - Sabba, and Dædan, and Carthaginian merchants, and all their villages shall say to thee, Thou art come for plunder to take a prey, and to get spoils: thou hast gathered thy multitude to take silver and gold, to carry off property, to take spoils.
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