To spoil
שָׁאַסStrong’s H8155shaas (sha-as)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shaas is the Hebrew word usually translated “plundered”, “have plundered him” and “plunder you”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.”
Meaning
- To plunder, spoil(Qal) ones plundering (participle)
How it's translated
- and they plundered 2
- they have plundered him 1
- they will be plundered 1
- plunder you 1
- and they will be plundered 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Zechariah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 2:14And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
- 1 Samuel 17:53And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
- Psalms 89:41All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
- Isaiah 13:16Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁאַס shaas · to spoil
1) to plunder, spoil 1a) (Qal) ones plundering (participle)
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.