To plunder
בָּזַזStrong’s H0962bazaz (ba-zaz)
Appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bazaz is the Hebrew word usually translated “plundered”, “we plundered” and “plunder”. It appears in 39 verses of the Old Testament.
“The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.”
Meaning
- To spoil, plunder, prey upon, seize(Qal) to spoil, plunder, despoil · (Niphal) to be spoiled, plundered · (Pual) to be taken as spoil
How it's translated
- and they plundered 5
- they plundered 4
- we plundered 2
- you will plunder 2
- to take as plunder 2
- they will plunder 2
- and to take as spoil 2
- and they will be plundered 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 8
- Ezekiel 5
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Numbers 3
- Deuteronomy 3
- Joshua 3
15 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 34:29And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
- Numbers 31:9And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
- 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,
- Numbers 31:53(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
- Deuteronomy 2:35Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
- Deuteronomy 3:7But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
All 39 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
בָּזַז bazaz · to plunder
1) to spoil, plunder, prey upon, seize 1a) (Qal) to spoil, plunder, despoil 1b) (Niphal) to be spoiled, plundered 1c) (Pual) to be taken as spoil
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.