שָׁסַס
shasas · plunder
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8155 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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shasas (שָׁסַס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plunder”.
Despoil.
How to say it
sha·sas
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
- Rob of everything, leave with nothing.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- plundered ×4
- plunder him ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 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.
- 1 Samuel 17:53
The sons of Israel returned from hotly pursuing the Philistines and plundered their camps.
- Psalms 89:41
All who pass along the way plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.
- Isaiah 13:16
And their little ones will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives violated.
- Zechariah 14:2
And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for war; and the city will be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women raped; and half of the city will go out into exile, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.