bazaz · plunder

What it means

bazaz (בָּזַז) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plunder”.

Take spoil.

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. To carry off spoils.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• plunder ×20
• plundered ×14
• seize ×3
• had looted ×2
• plunderers ×1
• plundering ×1
• they looted ×1
• those who despoil us ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×3
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×5
• Esther×2
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×9
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×6
• Amos×1
• Nahum×2
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 34:27

  The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had made their sister unclean.

• Genesis 34:29

  All their wealth, all their little ones and their wives they took captive and plundered, and all that was in the house.

• Numbers 31:9

  The sons of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones, and all their animals and all their livestock and all their wealth they looted.

• 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,

• Numbers 31:53

  The men of the army had looted each for himself.

• Deuteronomy 2:35

  Only the livestock we took as plunder for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities that we had captured.

• Deuteronomy 3:7

  But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as plunder for ourselves.

• Deuteronomy 20:14

  Only the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you may take as plunder for yourself; and you may eat the spoil of your enemies, which YHWH your Elohim has given you.

• Joshua 8:2

  And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king; only its spoil and its livestock you may plunder for yourselves. Set for yourself an ambush against the city behind it.”

• Joshua 8:27

  Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel plundered for themselves, according to the word of YHWH that he had commanded Joshua.

• Joshua 11:14

  And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock the sons of Israel plundered for themselves; only all the human beings they struck with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them; they did not leave anything that breathed.

• 1 Samuel 14:36

  Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder among them until the light of the morning, and let us not leave a man of them.” They said, “Do all that is good in your eyes.” And the priest said, “Let us draw near here to Elohim.”

• 2 Kings 7:16

  The people went out and plundered the camp of Aram. And a seah of fine flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 14:14

  They struck all the cities around Gerar, for the dread of YHWH was on them; and they plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.

• 2 Chronicles 20:25

  Jehoshaphat and his people came to plunder their spoil, and they found among them in abundance goods and corpses and precious objects, and they stripped them for themselves until they could carry no more; and they were three days plundering the spoil, for it was much.

• 2 Chronicles 25:13

  But the members of the band that Amaziah had sent back from going with him to war made raids on the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck of them three thousand, and plundered much plunder.

• 2 Chronicles 28:8

  The sons of Israel took captive from their brothers two hundred thousand, women, sons and daughters; and they also plundered much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

• Esther 3:13

  And letters were sent by the hand of the couriers to all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to make perish all the Jews, from the young man to the old man, little ones and women, on one day, the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their spoil.

• Esther 8:11

  in which the king granted the Jews who were in every city permission to assemble and to stand for their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to make perish any army of any people or province that might harass them, little ones and women, and to plunder their spoil,

• Psalms 109:11

  Let the creditor lay snares for all that he has, and let strangers plunder his toil.

• Isaiah 10:2

  to turn aside the poor from judgment, and to rob the afflicted of my people of justice, so that widows become their spoil, and that they may plunder the orphans!

• 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 11:14

  And they will swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east; Edom and Moab will be the reach of their hand, and the sons of Ammon their subjects.

• Isaiah 17:14

  At the time of evening, look, terror! Before morning it is no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who despoil us.

• Isaiah 24:3

  Emptied, the earth will be emptied; and plundered, it will be plundered; for YHWH has spoken this word.

• 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!”

• Isaiah 42:24

  Who gave Jacob to spoil, and Israel to plunderers? Was it not YHWH, this one against whom we have sinned? And they were not willing to walk in his ways, and they did not listen to his instruction.

• Jeremiah 20:5

  And I will give all the wealth of this city and all the fruit of its labor and all its precious things; and all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them and take them and bring them to Babylon.

• 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 50:37

  A sword against his horses and against his chariots and against all the mixed peoples who are in her midst, and they will become women! A sword against her treasures, and they will be plundered!

• Ezekiel 26:12

  And they will despoil your wealth and plunder your merchandise, and tear down your walls, and your houses of delight they will demolish; and your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters they will put.

• 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 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?”’

• Ezekiel 39:10

  And they will not carry wood from the field nor cut wood from the forests, for with the weapons they will make fires; and they will despoil those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares Adonai YHWH.

• Amos 3:11

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: An enemy, and he will be around the land; and he will bring down your strength from you, and your citadels will be plundered.

• Nahum 2:9

  Plunder the silver, plunder the gold; there is no end to the supply, wealth of every precious object.

• Zephaniah 2:9

  Therefore, as I live, declares YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel, surely Moab will be like Sodom, and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and a pit of salt, and a desolation forever; the remnant of my people will plunder them, and the rest of my nation will inherit them.”

And 4 more times.