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Lexicon :: Strong's H7998 - šālāl

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שָׁלָל
Transliteration
šālāl
Pronunciation
shaw-lawl'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2400a

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁלָל shâlâl, shaw-lawl'; from H7997; booty:—prey, spoil.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 73x

The KJV translates Strong's H7998 in the following manner: spoil (63x), prey (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 73x
The KJV translates Strong's H7998 in the following manner: spoil (63x), prey (10x).

  1. prey, plunder, spoil, booty

    1. prey

    2. booty, spoil, plunder (of war)

    3. plunder (private)

    4. gain (meaning dubious)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁלָל shâlâl, shaw-lawl'; from H7997; booty:—prey, spoil.
STRONGS H7998: Abbreviations
שָׁלָל 75 noun masculine1 Samuel 30:16 prey, spoil, plunder, booty; — absolute שׁ׳ Genesis 49:27 +; construct שְׁלַל Judges 5:30 +, suffix שְׁלָלֵךְ Zechariah 14:1, שְׁלַלְכֶם Isaiah 33:4, etc.; —
1. prey, of Benjamin as wolf Genesis 49:27 (poem in J; with חִלֵּק).
2. booty, spoil of war, of all kinds (often || בַּז): including garments, gold and silver Joshua 7:21 (J), ornaments Judges 8:24, 25, fabrics and women Judges 5:30a, Judges 5:30b, flocks and herds 1 Samuel 30:20; Jeremiah 49:32; 2 Chronicles 15:11, + persons Deuteronomy 20:14 (twice in verse), garments, food and drink 2 Chronicles 28:15, etc. (58 times; among these) שְׁלַל הֶעָרִים Deuteronomy 2:25; 2 Samuel 12:30; 1 Chronicles 20:2 and (+ cattle in addition) Deuteronomy 3:7; Joshua 8:27; Joshua 11:14 (both RD), compare (also of city) Isaiah 8:4; Deuteronomy 13:17 (twice in verse); Zechariah 14:1 and (+ cattle) Joshua 8:2 (RD), but including person and cattle Deuteronomy 20:14, compare Deuteronomy 20:14; figurative of entire nation Jeremiah 50:10; Ezekiel 7:21; Zechariah 2:13; שׁ׳ in symbolic proper name מַהֵר שָׁלָל וגו׳ Isaiah 8:1, 3, see above; שׁ׳ in metaphor of future majesty of עֶבֶד י׳ Isaiah 53:12; וְהֳיְתָהאלּוֺ נַפְשׁוֺ לְשׁ׳ i.e. life shall be spared, Jeremiah 21:9; Jeremiah 38:2; Jeremiah 39:18, compare Jeremiah 45:5.
3. private plunder Isaiah 10:2 (אַלְמָנוֺת שְׁלָלָם), Proverbs 1:13 and (perhaps in current saying) Proverbs 16:19.
4. = gain Proverbs 31:11. — לְצַוִּארֵי שׁ׳ Judges 5:30c is clearly wrong; meaning dubious (see especially GFM); plausible conjectures are לְצַוָּארַי שׁ׳ for my neck as spoil, ReussBr and others, and לְצַוְּארֵי שֵׁגָל for the neck of the queen Ew Be Kit and others (but שֵׁגָל elsewhere late); Now strike out שָׁלָל and reads לְצַוָּארָיו.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

49:27; 49:27

Deuteronomy

2:25; 3:7; 13:17; 20:14; 20:14; 20:14

Joshua

7:21; 8:2; 8:27; 11:14

Judges

5:30; 5:30; 5:30; 5:30; 8:24; 8:25

1 Samuel

30:16; 30:20

2 Samuel

12:30

1 Chronicles

20:2

2 Chronicles

15:11; 28:15

Proverbs

1:13; 16:19; 31:11

Isaiah

8:1; 8:3; 8:4; 10:2; 33:4; 53:12

Jeremiah

21:9; 38:2; 39:18; 45:5; 49:32; 50:10

Ezekiel

7:21

Zechariah

2:13; 14:1; 14:1

H7998

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7998 matches the Hebrew שָׁלָל (šālāl),
which occurs 74 times in 64 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 49:27–Isa 33:23)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:27 -
Benjamin is a wolf that raveneth:
In the morning he shall devour the prey,
And at even he shall divide the spoil.

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The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil;
My desire shall be satisfied upon them;
I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:11 - And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:12 - And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and unto Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:35 - only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:7 - But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:16 - And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, unto Jehovah thy God: and it shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14 - but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:21 - when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonish mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: set thee an ambush for the city behind it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:27 - Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey unto themselves, according unto the word of Jehovah which he commanded Joshua.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14 - And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any that breathed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:8 - and spake unto them, saying, Return with much wealth unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:30

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Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil?
A damsel, two damsels to every man;
To Sisera a spoil of dyed garments,
A spoil of dyed garments embroidered,
Of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:24 - And Gideon said unto them, I would make a request of you, that ye would give me every man the ear-rings of his spoil. (For they had golden ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:25 - And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the ear-rings of his spoil.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:30 - How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for now hath there been no great slaughter among the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:32 - and the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people did eat them with the blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:19 - Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of Jehovah, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21 - But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice unto Jehovah thy God in Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:16 - And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:19 - And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them: David brought back all.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:20 - And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:22 - Then answered all the wicked men and base fellows, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them aught of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:26 - And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold, a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of Jehovah:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:22 - And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from a foray, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:12 - of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:30 - And he took the crown of their king from off his head; and the weight thereof was a talent of gold, and in it were precious stones; and it was set on David’s head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 3:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:23 - and they said, This is blood; the kings are surely destroyed, and they have smitten each man his fellow: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 20:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:2 - And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David’s head: and he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 26:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:27 - Out of the spoil won in battles did they dedicate to repair the house of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:13 - And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and there fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Jehovah, and before his host; and they carried away very much booty.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:11 - And they sacrificed unto Jehovah in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:25 - And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:23 - And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the army of the Syrians came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:8 - And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:15 - And the men that have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm-trees, unto their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:13 - And letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:11 - wherein the king granted the Jews that were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:12 -
Kings of armies flee, they flee;
And she that tarrieth at home divideth the spoil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:162

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:162 -
I rejoice at thy word,
As one that findeth great spoil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:13 -
We shall find all precious substance;
We shall fill our houses with spoil;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:19 -
Better it is to be of a lowly spirit with the poor,
Than to divide the spoil with the proud.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:11 -
The heart of her husband trusteth in her,
And he shall have no lack of gain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:4 - For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:3 - Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:2 - to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 - I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:4 - And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathereth: as locusts leap shall men leap upon it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:23 - Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey.

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