biza · plunder

What it means

biza (בִּזָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plunder”.

What is taken from the defeated in war or in a raid. It is of the family of "plunder" (the verb).

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 taken from the defeated.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Chronicles×3
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Esther×3
• Daniel×2

• 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 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 28:14

  So the equipped men left the captives and the plunder before the officials and all the assembly.

• Ezra 9:7

  From the days of our fathers we have been in great guilt until this day; and for our iniquities we have been given, our kings, and our priests, into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to shame of face, as at this day.

• Nehemiah 4:4

  Hear, our Elohim, for we have become an object of contempt; and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them as plunder in a land of captivity.

• Esther 9:10

  the ten sons of Haman, son of Hammedatha, the adversary of the Jews, they killed; but on the plunder they did not stretch out their hand.

• Esther 9:15

  And the Jews who were in Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they killed in Susa three hundred men; but on the plunder they did not stretch out their hand.

• Esther 9:16

  And the rest of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces assembled and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and killed among those who hated them seventy-five thousand; but on the plunder they did not stretch out their hand.

• Daniel 11:24

  In a time of ease, and into the richest parts of the province, he will come, and he will do what his fathers did not do, nor the fathers of his fathers: plunder and spoil and goods he will scatter among them, and against fortified places he will devise his plans, but only until a time.

• Daniel 11:33

  And the insightful among the people will give understanding to the many; but they will stumble by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, for some days.