shasa · plunder

What it means

shasa (שָׁסָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plunder”.

Take from someone by force what he has.

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 by force what others have; the one who does so.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• plunder ×3
• plunderers ×3
• I have plundered ×1
• are plundering ×1
• despoiled ×1
• one who plundered it ×1
• those who plundered them ×1

Where it appears

• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Kings×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Hosea×1

• Judges 2:14

  The anger of YHWH burned against Israel, and he gave them into the hand of plunderers, who plundered them; and he sold them into the hand of their enemies all around, and they could no longer stand before their enemies.

• Judges 2:16

  Then YHWH raised up judges, and they saved them from the hand of those who plundered them.

• 1 Samuel 14:48

  He acted with valor and struck Amalek and delivered Israel from the hand of the one who plundered it.

• 1 Samuel 23:1

  They told David, saying, “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and they are plundering the threshing floors.”

• 2 Kings 17:20

  YHWH despised all the offspring of Israel, and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them from before his face.

• Psalms 44:10

  You make us turn back from the adversary, and those who hate us plunder for themselves.

• Isaiah 10:13

  For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; and I have removed the boundaries of peoples, and their treasures I have plundered; and like a mighty one I have brought down those who sat on thrones.

• 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 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 50:11

  Because you rejoice, because you exult, plunderers of my inheritance, because you frisk like a heifer threshing, and neigh like stallions,

• Hosea 13:15

  Though he is fruitful among brothers, an east wind will come, the wind of YHWH rising from the wilderness; and his spring will dry up, and his fountain will be parched; it will plunder the treasure of every precious object.