Prey
עַדStrong’s H5706ad
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ad is the Hebrew word usually translated “booty” and “booty of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.”
Meaning
- Booty, prey
How it's translated
- booty 1
- booty of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
עַד ad · prey
booty, prey
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “prey” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PREY, noun
[Latin proeda.]
- Spoil; booty; plunder; goods taken by force from an enemy in war.“And they brought the captives and the prey and the spoil to Moses and Eleazar the priest” Numbers 31:12“They [Judah] shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies” 2 Kings 21:14
- That which is seized or may be seized by violence to be devoured; ravine.“The old lion perisheth for lack of prey” Job 4:11
- Ravage; depredation.
All definitions and other forms of “prey”
PREY, verb intransitive
To prey on or upon, is to rob; to plunder; to pillage.
- To feed by violence, or to seize and devour.
- To corrode; to waste gradually; to cause to pine away.
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.