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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 into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:31 - But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:32 - Now the plunder remaining of the spoil that the army took was 675,000 sheep,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:39 - And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:14 - And I will forsake the remnant of my heritage and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 - Against a godless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take spoil and seize plunder,
and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:23 - Your cords hang loose;
they cannot hold the mast firm in its place
or keep the sail spread out.
Then prey and spoil in abundance will be divided;
even the lame will take the prey.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:22 - But this is a people plundered and looted;
they are all of them trapped in holes
and hidden in prisons;
they have become plunder with none to rescue,
spoil with none to say, “Restore!”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:14 - “Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant?
Why then has he become a prey?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:13 - “Your wealth and your treasures I will give as spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:3 - on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your high places for sin throughout all your territory.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:16 - Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured,
and all your foes, every one of them, shall go into captivity;
those who plunder you shall be plundered,
and all who prey on you I will make a prey.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:32 - Their camels shall become plunder,
their herds of livestock a spoil.
I will scatter to every wind
those who cut the corners of their hair,
and I will bring their calamity
from every side of them,
declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:21 - And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for prey, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and they shall profane it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:46 - For thus says the Lord GOD: “Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:7 - therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:5 - She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. And she shall become plunder 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 shall carry off its wealth[fn] and despoil it and plunder it; and it shall be the wages for his army.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:8 - As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:22 - I will rescue[fn] my flock; they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:28 - They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them. They shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.
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 the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:5 - therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12 - to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:13 - Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its leaders[fn] will say to you, ‘Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?’
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