Spoil
מְשׁוּסָהStrong’s H4933meshusah (me-shu-sah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Meshusah is the Hebrew word usually translated “plunder”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And 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;”
Meaning
- Booty, spoil, plunder
How it's translated
- plunder 4
- and plunder 1
- to plunder 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- 2 Kings 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Habakkuk 1
- Zephaniah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 42:22But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
- Isaiah 42:24Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
- Jeremiah 30:16Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
- Habakkuk 2:7Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
- Zephaniah 1:13Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
Hebrew dictionary
מְשׁוּסָה meshusah · spoil
booty, spoil, plunder Another spelling of me.shis.sah (מְשִׁסָּה "plunder" H4933)
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.