Hebrew

Spoil

חֲלִיצָהStrong’s H2488

chalitsah (cha-li-tsah)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Chalitsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “spoils their” and “spoils his”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father’s house.”

Judges 14:19 KJV

Meaning

What is stripped off (a person in war), armour, spoils, belt

How it's translated

spoils their 1
spoils his 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Judges 1
2 Samuel 1

2 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

2 Samuel 2:21And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him.

Hebrew dictionary

חֲלִיצָה chalitsah · spoil

what is stripped off (a person in war), armour, spoils, belt

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.