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Lexicon :: Strong's H7998 - šālāl

Aa
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, searching for meat: in the morning he takes his food, and in the evening he makes division of what he has taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:9 - Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:11 - They went away with the goods they had taken, man and beast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:12 - And the prisoners and the goods and everything they had taken, they took to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the people of Israel, to the tent-circle in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:35 - Only the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods from the towns we had taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:7 - But we took for ourselves all the cattle and the stored wealth of the towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:16 - And take all the goods into the middle of its open space, burning the town and all its property with fire as an offering to the Lord your God; it is to be a waste for ever; there is to be no more building there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:14 - But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:21 - When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - And you are to do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king: but their goods and their cattle you may take for yourselves: let a secret force be stationed to make a surprise attack on the town from the back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:27 - But the cattle and the goods from that town, Israel took for themselves, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14 - And all the goods taken from these towns, and their cattle, the children of Israel kept for themselves; but every man they put to death without mercy, till their destruction was complete, and there was no one living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:8 - And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver and gold and brass and iron, and with a very great store of clothing; give your brothers a part of the goods taken in the war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30 - Are they not getting, are they not parting the goods among them: a young girl or two to every man; and to Sisera robes of coloured needlework, worked in fair colours on this side and on that, for the neck of the queen?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:24 - Then Gideon said to them, I have a request to make to you; let every man give me the ear-rings he has taken. (For they had gold ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:25 - And they gave answer, We will gladly give them. So they put down a robe, every man dropping into it the ear-rings he had taken.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:30 - How much more if the people had freely taken their food from the goods of those who were fighting against them! would there not have been much greater destruction among the Philistines?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:32 - And rushing at the goods taken in the fight, the people took oxen and sheep and young oxen, and put them to death there on the earth, and had a meal, taking the flesh with the blood in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:19 - Why then did you not do the orders of the Lord, but by violently taking their goods did evil in the eyes of the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:21 - But the people took some of their goods, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which were put to the curse, to make an offering of them to the Lord your God in Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:16 - And when he had taken him down, they saw them all, seated about on all sides, feasting and drinking among all the mass of goods which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:19 - There was no loss of anything, small or great, sons or daughters or goods or anything which they had taken away: David got it all back.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:20 - And they took all the flocks and herds, and driving them in front of him, said, These are David's.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:22 - Then the bad and good-for-nothing men among those who went with David said, Because they did not go with us, we will give them nothing of the goods which we have got back, but only to every man his wife and children, so that he may take them and go.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:26 - And when David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the goods to the responsible men of Judah, and to his friends, saying, Here is an offering for you from the goods of those who were fighting against the Lord;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:22 - Now the servants of David and Joab had been out attacking a band of armed men, and they came back with a great store of goods taken in the fight: but Abner was no longer in Hebron with David, for he had sent him away and he had gone in peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:12 - The nations of Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon and the Philistines and the Amalekites and the goods he had taken from Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:30 - And he took the crown of Milcom from his head; the weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it were stones of great price; and it was put on David's head. And he took a great store of goods from the town.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:23 - Then they said, This is blood: it is clear that destruction has come on the kings; they have been fighting one another: now come, Moab, let us take their goods.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 20:2 - And David took the crown of Milcom from off his head; its weight was a talent of gold and it had stones of great price in it; and it was put on David's head, and he took a great store of goods from the town.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:27 - From the goods taken in war, they gave, as a holy offering, materials for the building of the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:13 - And Asa and the people who were with him went after them as far as Gerar; and so great was the destruction among the Ethiopians that they were not able to get their army together again, for they were broken before the Lord and before his army; and they took away a great amount of their goods.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:11 - And that day they made offerings to the Lord of the things they had taken in war, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:25 - And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their goods from them, they saw beasts in great numbers, and wealth and clothing and things of value, more than they were able to take away; all this they took for themselves, and they were three days getting it away, there was so much.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:23 - Now in the spring, the army of the Aramaeans came up against him; they came against Judah and Jerusalem, putting to death all the great men of the people and sending all the goods they took from them to the king of Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:8 - And the children of Israel took away as prisoners from their brothers, two hundred thousand, women and sons and daughters, and a great store of their goods, and took them to Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:15 - And those men who have been named went up and took the prisoners, clothing those among them who were uncovered, with things from the goods which had been taken in the war, and putting robes on them and shoes on their feet; and they gave them food and drink and oil for their bodies, and seating all the feeble among them on asses, they took them to Jericho, the town of palm-trees, to their people, and then went back to Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:13 - And letters were sent by the runners into every division of the kingdom ordering the death and destruction of all Jews, young and old, little children and women, on the same day, even the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar, and the taking of all their goods by force.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:11 - In these letters the king gave authority to the Jews in every town to come together and make a fight for their lives, and to send death and destruction on the power of any people in any part of the kingdom attacking them or their children or their women, and to take their goods from them by force,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:12 - Kings of armies quickly go in flight: and the women in the houses make a division of their goods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:162

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:162 - I am delighted by your saying, like a man who makes discovery of great wealth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:13 - Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:19 - Better it is to have a gentle spirit with the poor, than to take part in the rewards of war with men of pride.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:11 - The heart of her husband has faith in her, and he will have profit in full measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:4 - For before the child is able to say, Father, or, Mother, the wealth of Damascus and the goods of Samaria will be taken away by the king of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:3 - You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:2 - Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 - I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:4 - And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:23 - Your cords have become loose; they were not able to make strong the support of their sails, the sail was not stretched out: then the blind will take much property, the feeble-footed will make division of the goods of war.

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