gazal · seize, rob

What it means

gazal (גָּזַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “seize, rob”.

Take by force, rob, tear away.

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 take something from someone by force.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• robbed ×8
• rob ×3
• robbery ×2
• seize ×2
• snatched ×2
• they seize ×2
• Whoever robs ×1
• commits ×1
• committed ×1
• had seized ×1
• others ×7

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Leviticus×2
• Deuteronomy×2
• Judges×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×4
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×5
• Micah×2
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 21:25

  But Abraham reproached Abimelech about a well of water that the servants of Abimelech had seized.

• Genesis 31:31

  Jacob answered and said to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said to myself, ‘You might take by force your daughters from me.’

• Leviticus 6:4

  when he has sinned and is guilty, he shall restore what he robbed or what he gained by exploitation or the deposit that was deposited with him or the lost thing that he found,

• Leviticus 19:13

  You shall not oppress your neighbor and you shall not rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not stay overnight with you until morning.

• Deuteronomy 28:29

  And you will be groping at noon, as the blind man gropes in the darkness, and you will not prosper your ways; and you will be only oppressed and robbed all the days, and there will be no one to save you.

• Deuteronomy 28:31

  Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, and you will not eat of it; your donkey will be robbed from before you, and it will not return to you; your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.

• Judges 9:25

  The lords of Shechem set against him men in ambush on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed everyone who passed by them on the road. And it was told to Abimelech.

• Judges 21:23

  And the sons of Benjamin did so, and they took wives according to their number from the dancers whom they stole; and they went and returned to their inheritance, and built the cities and lived in them.

• 2 Samuel 23:21

  He struck an Egyptian man, a man of imposing appearance. In the hand of the Egyptian was a spear, and he went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear from the hand of the Egyptian and killed him with his own spear.

• 1 Chronicles 11:23

  And he struck the Egyptian man, a man of great stature, five cubits tall. In the hand of the Egyptian was a spear like a beam of weavers, and he went down to him with a staff, snatched the spear from the hand of the Egyptian, and killed him with his own spear.

• Job 20:19

  For he crushed and abandoned the poor; a house he seized, and did not build it.

• Job 24:2

  They move boundary markers; they seize a flock and pasture it.

• Job 24:9

  They seize the orphan from the breast, and against the poor they take pledges.

• Job 24:19

  Drought and heat seize the waters of snow; Sheol, those who have sinned.

• Psalms 35:10

  All my bones will say, “YHWH, who is like you, who delivers the afflicted from one stronger than he, and the afflicted and the needy from the one who robs him?”

• Psalms 69:4

  More than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would annihilate me, my enemies with lies; what I did not steal, then I restore.

• Proverbs 4:16

  For they do not sleep unless they have done evil, and their sleep is robbed unless they make someone stumble.

• Proverbs 22:22

  Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted in the gate;

• Proverbs 28:24

  Whoever robs his father and his mother and says, “It is no transgression,” he is a companion of a man who destroys.

• 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!

• Jeremiah 21:12

  house of David! Thus says YHWH: Judge justly in the morning, and rescue the one who is robbed from the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire and burn with no one to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.

• Jeremiah 22:3

  Thus says YHWH: Do justice and righteousness, and rescue the one who is robbed from the hand of the oppressor; and the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow do not wrong, do not treat with violence; and innocent blood do not shed in this place.

• Ezekiel 18:7

  and does not oppress anyone, restores his pledge for a debt, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry, and covers the naked with clothing;

• Ezekiel 18:12

  oppresses the poor and the needy, commits robberies, does not restore the pledge, and lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,

• Ezekiel 18:16

  and does not oppress anyone, does not take a pledge, and commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry, and covers the naked with clothing;

• Ezekiel 18:18

  His father, because he practiced exploitation, robbed his brother of what he robbed, and did what is not good among his people, look, he will die for his iniquity.

• Ezekiel 22:29

  The people of the land have practiced exploitation and committed robbery, and the poor and the needy they have oppressed, and the resident alien they have exploited without justice.

• Micah 2:2

  And they covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them; and they exploit a man and his house, a person and his inheritance.

• Micah 3:2

  You who hate good and love evil, who tear away their skin from off them and their flesh from off their bones;

• Malachi 1:13

  And you say, “Look, what a hardship!” and you snort at it, says YHWH Tsevaot; and you bring what was stolen, and the lame and the sick, and you bring the offering: shall I accept it from your hand? says YHWH.