baz · plunder, booty

What it means

baz (בַּז) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plunder, booty”.

Plunder: what the victor carries off from the defeated.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What is seized from a defeated enemy or a captured city.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• plunder ×18
• booty ×7

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×12

• Numbers 14:3

  And why is YHWH bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”

• Numbers 14:31

  But your little ones, whom you said would become plunder, I will bring them in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.

• Numbers 31:32

  The plunder, the rest of the booty that the people of the army had looted, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

• Deuteronomy 1:39

  And your little ones, who you said would become plunder, and your sons, who today do not know good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them I will give it, and they shall take possession of it.

• 2 Kings 21:14

  I will forsake the remnant of my heritage and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,

• Isaiah 10:6

  Against a godless nation I send it, and against the people of my fury I command it, to take spoil and to seize plunder, and to make it a thing trampled like the mud of the streets.

• Isaiah 33:23

  Your ropes hang loose; they cannot hold firm the base of their mast, they cannot spread out the sail. Then prey, abundant spoil, will be divided; the lame will plunder the plunder.

• Isaiah 42:22

  But this is a people plundered and despoiled; all of them are trapped in the holes, and in houses of prison they are hidden; they have become plunder, and there is no one to deliver; spoil, and there is no one to say, “Give it back!”

• Jeremiah 2:14

  Is Israel a slave? Or is he born in the house? Why has he become plunder?

• Jeremiah 15:13

  Your wealth and your treasures as plunder I will give, not for a price, and for all your sins, and in all your territory.

• Jeremiah 17:3

  My mountain in the field, your wealth, all your treasures, as plunder I will give, your high places, because of sin, in all your territory.

• Jeremiah 30:16

  Therefore all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries, all of them, will go into captivity; and those who despoil you will become spoil, and all who plunder you I will give to plunder.

• Jeremiah 49:32

  And their camels will become plunder, and the multitude of their livestock spoil; and I will scatter them to every wind, those clipped at the temples; and from all its sides I will bring their calamity, declares YHWH.

• Ezekiel 7:21

  And I will give it into the hand of the strangers as plunder, and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.

• Ezekiel 23:46

  For thus says Adonai YHWH: Bring up against them an assembly, and give them over to dread and to plunder.

• Ezekiel 25:7

  therefore, look, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I will give you as plunder to the nations, and I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands; I will exterminate you; and you will know that I am YHWH.

• Ezekiel 26:5

  A spreading place for nets she will be in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken, declares Adonai YHWH; and she will become plunder for the nations.

• Ezekiel 29:19

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am giving to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon the land of Egypt; and he will carry off her multitude and take her spoil and plunder her booty, and it will be the wage for his army.

• Ezekiel 34:8

  As I live, declares Adonai YHWH, surely, because my sheep have become booty and my sheep have become food for every animal of the field for lack of a shepherd, and my shepherds have not sought my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and my sheep they have not fed,

• Ezekiel 34:22

  I will save my sheep, and they will no longer be booty, and I will judge between sheep and sheep.

• Ezekiel 34:28

  And they will no longer be booty for the nations, and the animals of the earth will not devour them; and they will live securely, and there will be no one to make them afraid.

• Ezekiel 36:4

  therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of Adonai YHWH: Thus says Adonai YHWH to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, and to the desolate ruins and to the abandoned cities that have become booty and mockery to the rest of the nations that are all around,

• Ezekiel 36:5

  therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with the joy of a whole heart, with contempt of soul, so that its pastureland might be booty.

• Ezekiel 38:12

  to take spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the ruins now inhabited, and against a people gathered from nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who live at the navel of the earth.

• Ezekiel 38:13

  Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its young lions will say to you, “Is it to take spoil that you come? Is it to seize plunder that you have assembled your assembly, to carry away silver and gold, to take livestock and goods, to take great spoil?”’