Plunder
בִּזָּהStrong’s H0961bizzah (biz-zah)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bizzah is the Hebrew word usually translated “plunder” and “on the plunder”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.”
Meaning
- Spoil, booty
How it's translated
- plunder 3
- and on the plunder 3
- and by plunder 2
- the plunder 1
- to plunder 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Esther 3
- Daniel 2
- Ezra 1
- Nehemiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 11:33In contextAnd they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
- 2 Chronicles 14:14And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.
- 2 Chronicles 25:13But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.
- 2 Chronicles 28:14So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.
- Ezra 9:7Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
- Nehemiah 4:4Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
Hebrew dictionary
בִּזָּה bizzah · plunder
spoil, booty
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “plunder” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLUN'DER, verb transitive
- To pillage; to spoil; to strip; to take the goods of an enemy by open force.
- To take by pillage or open force.
- To rob, as a thief; to take from; to strip; as, the thief plundered the house; the robber plundered a man of his money and watch; pirates plunder ships and men.
All definitions and other forms of “plunder”
PLUN'DER, noun
That which is taken from an enemy by force; pillage; prey; spoil.
- That which is taken by theft, robbery or fraud.
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.