shalal · pull out, plunder

What it means

shalal (שָׁלַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pull out, plunder”.

Pull out, draw something out to set it aside. Elsewhere, "strip" or "plunder."

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 draw out something, like ears of grain.
2. To strip the defeated of their goods.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• take ×5
• plundered ×3
• plunder ×2
• pull out ×2
• they will despoil ×2
• those who despoiled them ×1
• who despoil her ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Ruth×2
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×7
• Habakkuk×2
• Zechariah×1

• Ruth 2:16

  And also pull out for her some from the bundles and leave them and let her glean them, and do not rebuke her.”

• Psalms 76:5

  The strong of heart were plundered; they slept their sleep, and none of the men of valor found their hands.

• 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 59:15

  And truth is lacking, and whoever turns from evil is plundered. And YHWH saw and it was evil in his eyes that there was no justice.

• Jeremiah 50:10

  And Chaldea will become spoil; all who despoil her will be sated, declares YHWH.

• 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.

• Habakkuk 2:8

  Because you have plundered many nations, all the rest of the peoples will plunder you, for the blood of human beings and violence done to the land, to the city, and to all who dwell in it.

• Zechariah 2:8

  For thus says YHWH Tsevaot, after glory he sent me to the nations that plunder you: “For whoever touches you touches the pupil of his eye.

And 4 more times.