Violence
גְּזֵלָהStrong’s H1500gezelah (ge-ze-lah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gezelah is the Hebrew word usually translated “robbery”, “thing robbed” and “plunder of”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,”
Meaning
- Plunder, spoil, robbery
How it's translated
- robbery 2
- the thing robbed 1
- plunder of 1
- robberies 1
- and robbery 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 4
- Leviticus 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 3:14The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
- Ezekiel 18:7And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
- Ezekiel 18:12Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,
- Ezekiel 18:16Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,
- Ezekiel 33:15If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Hebrew dictionary
גְּזֵלָה gezelah · violence
plunder, spoil, robbery
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “violence” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VI'OLENCE, noun
[Latin violentia.]
- Physical force; strength of action or motion; as the violence of a storm; the violence of a blow or of a conflict.
- Moral force; vehemence.
- Outrage; unjust force; crimes of all kinds.“The earth was filled with violence” Genesis 6:11
- Eagerness; vehemence.
All definitions and other forms of “violence”
- Injury; infringement.
- Injury; hurt.“Do violence to no man” Luke 3:14
- Ravishment; rape.
VI'OLENCE, verb transitive
To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence [Little used.]
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.