meshisa · spoil, plunder

What it means

meshisa (מְשִׁסָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “spoil, plunder”.

Spoil: what an enemy snatches when plundering, and also the people itself left exposed to plunder (2 Kings 21:14; Isaiah 42:22; Jeremiah 30:16).

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 looted, or the looted people.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zephaniah×1

• 2 Kings 21:14

  I will forsake the remnant of my heritage and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,

• 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 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.

• Habakkuk 2:7

  Will not suddenly rise up those who bite you, and awake those who shake you, and you will be spoil for them?

• Zephaniah 1:13

  And their wealth will become spoil, and their houses a desolation; and they will build houses but not dwell in them; and they will plant vineyards but not drink their wine.”