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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 Box Num 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:3 - “Why has the LORD brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:31 - ‘But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:32 - The booty remaining from the plunder, which the men of war had taken, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:39

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:39 - ‘Moreover your little ones and your children, who you say will be victims, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:14 - ‘So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become victims of plunder to all their enemies,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 - I will send him against an ungodly nation,
And against the people of My wrath
I will give him charge,
To seize the spoil, to take the prey,
And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:23 - Your tackle is loosed,
They could not strengthen their mast,
They could not spread the sail.

Then the prey of great plunder is divided;
The lame take the prey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:22 - But this is a people robbed and plundered;
All of them are snared in holes,
And they are hidden in prison houses;
They are for prey, and no one delivers;
For plunder, and no one says, “Restore!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:14 - “Is Israel a servant?
Is he a homeborn slave?
Why is he plundered?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:13 - Your wealth and your treasures
I will give as plunder without price,
Because of all your sins,
Throughout your territories.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:3 - O My mountain in the field,
I will give as plunder your wealth, all your treasures,
And your high places of sin within all your borders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:16 - ‘Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured;
And all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity;
Those who plunder you shall become plunder,
And all who prey upon you I will make a prey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:32 - Their camels shall be for booty,
And the multitude of their cattle for plunder.
I will scatter to all winds those in the farthest corners,
And I will bring their calamity from all its sides,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:21 - I will give it as plunder
Into the hands of strangers,
And to the wicked of the earth as spoil;
And they shall defile it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:46

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:46 - “For thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Bring up an assembly against them, give them up to trouble and plunder.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:7 - “indeed, therefore, I will stretch out My hand against you, and give you as plunder to the nations; I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish from the countries; I will destroy you, and you shall know that I am the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:5 - ‘It shall be a place for spreading nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,’ says the Lord GOD; ‘it shall become plunder for the nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:19 - “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Surely I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he shall take away her wealth, carry off her spoil, and remove her pillage; and that will be the wages for his army.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:8 - “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “surely because My flock became a prey, and My flock became food for every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock”—

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:22 - “therefore I will save My flock, and they shall no longer be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:28 - “And they shall no longer be a prey for the nations, nor shall beasts of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and no one shall make them afraid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:4

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, the hills, the rivers, the valleys, the desolate wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken, which became plunder and mockery to the rest of the nations all around—

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:5 - ‘therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Surely I have spoken in My burning jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave My land to themselves as a possession, with wholehearted joy and spiteful minds, in order to plunder its open country.” ’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:12 - “to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:13 - “Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions will say to you, ‘Have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’ ” ’
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