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

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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)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:27 -

“Benjamin is a [fn]ravenous wolf;

In the morning he devours the prey,

And in the evening he divides the spoil H7998.”

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:9 -

“The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil H7998;

My [fn]desire shall be fulfilled against them;

I will draw out my sword, my hand will dispossess them.’

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:11 - And they took all the spoil H7998 and all the loot, both of man and of beast.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:12 - And they brought the captives and the loot and the spoil H7998 to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan opposite Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:35 - “We took only the animals as our plunder and the spoil H7998 of the cities which we had captured.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:7 - “But all the animals and the spoil H7998 of the cities we took as our plunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:16 - “Then you shall gather all its spoil H7998 into the middle of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil H7998 with fire as a whole burnt offering to Yahweh your God; and it shall be a [fn]ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14 - “Only the women and the little ones and the animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil H7998, you shall plunder for yourself; and you shall consume the spoil H7998 of your enemies which Yahweh your God has given you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:21 - I saw among the spoil H7998 a beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred [fn]shekels of silver and a bar of gold fifty shekels in weight; then I [fn]coveted them and took them; and behold, they are concealed in the earth inside my tent with the silver underneath it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - “So you shall do to Ai and its king just as you did to Jericho and its king; you shall take only its spoil H7998 and its cattle as plunder for yourselves. [fn]Set an ambush for the city behind it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:27 - Israel took only the cattle and the spoil H7998 of that city as plunder for themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which He had commanded Joshua.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14 - Now all the spoil H7998 of these cities and the cattle, the sons of Israel took as their plunder; but they struck every man with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them. They left no one remaining who breathed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:8 - and spoke to them, saying, “Return to your tents with great riches and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and with very many clothes; divide the spoil H7998 of your enemies with your brothers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30 -

‘Are they not finding, are they not dividing the spoil H7998?

A maiden, two maidens for every mighty man;

To Sisera a spoil H7998 of dyed work,

A spoil H7998 of dyed work embroidered,

Dyed work of double embroidery on the [fn]neck of the spoil H7998?’

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:24 - Yet Gideon said to them, “I would [fn]make one request of you, that each of you give me [fn]an earring from his spoil H7998.” (For they had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:25 - And they said, “We will surely give them.” So they spread out a garment, and every one of them threw an earring there from his spoil H7998.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:30 - “How much more, if only the people had eaten freely today of the spoil H7998 of their enemies which they found! For now the slaughter among the Philistines has not been great.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:32 - So the people [fn]rushed greedily upon the spoil H7998, and they took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:19 - “Why then did you not [fn]obey the voice of Yahweh, but rushed upon the spoil H7998 and did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21 - “But the people took some of the spoil H7998, sheep and oxen, the choicest of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God at Gilgal.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:16 -

So he brought him down, and behold, they were [fn]spread over all the land, eating and drinking and [fn]celebrating because of all the great spoil H7998 that they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:19 - Indeed nothing of theirs was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil H7998 or anything that they had taken for themselves; David brought it all back.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:20 - And David took all the sheep and the cattle which the people drove ahead of [fn]the other livestock, and they said, “This is David’s spoil H7998.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:22 - Then all the evil and vile men among those who went with David said, “Because they did not go with [fn]us, we will not give them any of the spoil H7998 that we have delivered, except to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away and depart.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:26 -

Then David came to Ziklag and sent some of the spoil H7998 to the elders of Judah, to his friends, saying, “Behold, a [fn]gift for you from the spoil H7998 of the enemies of Yahweh:

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:22 -

And behold, the servants of David and Joab came from a raid and brought much spoil H7998 with them; but Abner was not with David in Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:12 - from [fn]Aram, Moab, the sons of Ammon, the Philistines, Amalek, and from the spoil H7998 of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:30 - Then he took the crown of [fn]their king from his head; and its weight was a [fn]talent of gold, and in it [fn]was a precious stone; and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the spoil H7998 of the city in a very great amount.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:23 - Then they said, “This is blood; the kings have surely fought together, and they have struck down one another. So now, Moab, to the spoil H7998!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:2 - Then David took the crown of [fn]their king from his head; and he found it to weigh a [fn]talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone; and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the spoil H7998 of the city in a very great amount.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:27 - They set apart as holy part of what was won in battles and part of the spoil H7998 to repair the house of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:13 - And Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar; and so many Ethiopians fell that [fn]they could not recover, for they were shattered before Yahweh and before His [fn]army. And they carried away very much spoil H7998.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:11 - And they sacrificed to Yahweh that day 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep from the spoil H7998 they had brought.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:25 - So Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their spoil H7998 and found much among them, including goods, [fn]garments, and valuable things which they took for themselves, more than they could carry. And they were three days taking the spoil H7998 because there was so much.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:23 -

Now it happened at the turn of the year that the military force of the Arameans came up against him; and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, destroyed all the officials of the people from among the people, and sent all their spoil H7998 to the king of Damascus.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:8 -

Then the sons of Israel carried away captive of their brothers 200,000 women, sons, and daughters; and they plundered also a great deal of spoil H7998 from them and brought the spoil H7998 to Samaria.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:15 - Then the men who were designated by name arose, took hold of the captives, and they clothed all their naked ones from the spoil H7998; and they gave them clothes and sandals, fed them and gave them drink, anointed them with oil, led all their feeble ones on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers; then they returned to Samaria.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:13 - And letters were sent by the hand of couriers to all the king’s provinces to destroy, to kill, and to cause all the Jews to perish, both young and old, little ones and women, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their spoil H7998.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:11 - [fn]In them the king gave the Jews who were in each and every city the right to assemble and to make a stand for their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish the entire military force of any people or province which would act as their adversaries, including little ones and women, and to plunder their spoil H7998,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:12 -

“Kings of armies retreat, they retreat,

And she who remains at home will divide the spoil H7998!”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:162 -

I rejoice at Your [fn]word,

As one who finds much spoil H7998.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:13 -

We will find all kinds of precious wealth,

We will fill our houses with spoil H7998;

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:19 -

It is better to be humble in spirit with the lowly

Than to divide the spoil H7998 with the proud.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:11 -

Beth

The heart of her husband trusts in her,

And he will have no lack of gain H7998.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:4 - for before the boy knows how to cry out ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil H7998 of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:3 -

You shall multiply the nation,

You shall [fn]make great [fn]their gladness;

They will be glad in Your presence

As with the gladness [fn]of harvest,

As [fn]men rejoice when they divide the spoil H7998.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:2 -

So as to turn the poor away from their cause

And rob the afflicted of My people of their justice,

So that widows may be their spoil H7998

And that they may plunder the [fn]orphans.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 -

I send it against a godless nation

And command it against the people of My fury

To capture spoil H7998 and to seize plunder,

And to [fn]trample them down like mud in the streets.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:4 -

Your spoil H7998 is gathered as the caterpillar gathers;

As locusts rushing about men rush about on it.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:23 -

Your cords hang slack;

They cannot hold the base of their mast firmly,

Nor spread out the sail.

Then the prey of an abundant spoil H7998 will be divided;

The lame will take the plunder.


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