Hebrew noun (masculine) · H957
בַּז
bazbaz
plunder
25 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H957is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 19spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H957
plunder
The King James renders it: booty, prey, spoil(-ed).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
baz is rendered "plunder". It stands 25 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Twelve of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 14:3Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
- The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.
The first use
Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
Numbers 14:3לָבַ֑ז
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- into spoil7
- spoil5
- into plunder4
- into prey2
- to plunder2
- and to spoil1
- as spoil1
- spoil its1
- the plunder1
- to spoil1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 25, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
19 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- לָבַ֣ז3
- לָבַֽז׃3
- לְבַז֙2
- לָבַ֑ז2
- בַּ֔ז1
- בַּז֙1
- בַּ֑ז1
- בַּ֖ז1
- בַֽז׃1
- בִּזָּ֔הּ1
- הַבָּ֔ז1
- וְלָבַֽז׃1
and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine singular17HR/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular5HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3fs
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Numbers
three uses
Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
- לָבַ֑זlavazpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into plunder
But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
- לָבַ֣זlavazpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into plunder
and this plunder remained from the spoils the soldiers had taken: 675,000 sheep,
- הַבָּ֔זhabazthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the plunder
Deuteronomy
one use
And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
- לָבַ֣זlavazpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into plunder
2 Kings
one use
So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,
- לְבַ֛זlevazpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into spoil
Isaiah
three uses
I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
- בַּ֔זbaznoun · masculine singulartagged: spoil
Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.
- בַֽז׃vaznoun · masculine singulartagged: spoil
But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”
- לָבַז֙lavazpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into spoil
Jeremiah
five uses
Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?
- לָבַֽז׃lavazpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into plunder
Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.
- לָבַ֥זlavazpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to plunder
O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.
- לָבַ֣זlavazpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to plunder
Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them—will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided.
- לָבַֽז׃lavazpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into spoil
Their camels will become plunder, and their large herds will be spoil. I will scatter to the wind in every direction those who shave their temples; I will bring calamity on them from all sides,” declares the LORD.
- לָבַ֗זlavazpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into spoil
Ezekiel
twelve uses
And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.
- לָבַ֔זlavazpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to spoil
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder.
- וְלָבַֽז׃velavazconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and to spoil
therefore I will indeed stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.’
- לְבַז֙levagpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: as spoil
She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations,
- לְבַ֖זlevazpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into spoil
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will carry off its wealth, seize its spoil, and remove its plunder. This will be the wages for his army.
- בִּזָּ֔הּbizahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: spoil its
‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because My flock lacks a shepherd and has become prey and food for every wild beast, and because My shepherds did not search for My flock but fed themselves instead,
- לָבַ֡זlavazpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into prey
I will save My flock, and they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.
- לָבַ֑זlavazpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into prey
They will no longer be prey for the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not consume them. They will dwell securely, and no one will frighten them.
- בַּז֙baznoun · masculine singulartagged: spoil
therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you.
- לְבַז֙levazpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into spoil
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder.
- לָבַֽז׃lavazpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into spoil
in order to seize the spoil and carry off the plunder, to turn a hand against the desolate places now inhabited and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and possessions and who live at the center of the land.’
- בַּ֑זbaznoun · masculine singulartagged: spoil
Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will ask, ‘Have you come to capture the plunder? Have you assembled your hordes to carry away loot, to make off with silver and gold, to take cattle and goods, to seize great spoil?’
- בַּ֖זbaznoun · masculine singulartagged: spoil
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
