Spoil
בַּגStrong’s H0957bag
Appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bag is the Hebrew word usually translated “spoil”, “plunder” and “prey”. It appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament.
“And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?”
Meaning
- Spoil, booty
How it's translated
- spoil 11
- plunder 4
- to plunder 2
- prey 2
- the plunder 1
- into spoil 1
- to spoil 1
- and to spoil 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 12
- Jeremiah 5
- Numbers 3
- Isaiah 3
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Kings 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 14:31But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
- Numbers 31:32And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
- Deuteronomy 1:39Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
- 2 Kings 21:14And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
- Isaiah 10:6I will send him against an hypocritical 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.
- Isaiah 33:23Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
Hebrew dictionary
בַּג bag · spoil
spoil, booty Another spelling of baz (בַּז "plunder" H0957)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “spoil” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SPOIL, verb transitive
[Latin, to pull asunder, to tear, to strip, to peel.]
- To plunder; to strip by violence; to rob; with of; as, to spoil one of his goods or possessions.
- To seize by violence; to take by force; as, to spoil ones goods.
- To corrupt; to cause to decay and perish.
- To corrupt; to vitiate; to mar.
All definitions and other forms of “spoil”
- To ruin; to destroy.
- To render useless by injury; as, to spoil paper by wetting it.
- To injure fatally; as, to spoil the eyes by reading.
SPOIL, verb intransitive
- To practice plunder or robbery.
- To decay; to lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.
SPOIL, noun
[Latin]
- That which is taken from others by violence; particularly in war, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
- That which is gained by strength or effort.
- That which is taken from another without license.
- The act or practice of plundering; robbery; waste.
- Corruption; cause of corruption.
- The slough or cast skin of a serpent or other animal.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.