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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 19
    spellings

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

Twelve of the word's twenty-five uses are in Ezekiel.

The other 33 Old Testament books never use the word.

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.

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?”

    Numbers 14:3

    • 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.

    Numbers 14:31

    • לָבַ֣זlavazpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into plunder
  • and this plunder remained from the spoils the soldiers had taken: 675,000 sheep,

    Numbers 31:32

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 1:39

    • 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,

    2 Kings 21:14

    • 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.

    Isaiah 10:6

    • 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.

    Isaiah 33:23

    • 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!”

    Isaiah 42:22

    • לָבַז֙lavazpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into spoil

Jeremiah

five uses
  • Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?

    Jeremiah 2:14

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 15:13

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 17:3

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 30:16

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 49:32

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 7:21

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 23:46

    • 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.’

    Ezekiel 25:7

    • 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,

    Ezekiel 26:5

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 29:19

    • 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,

    Ezekiel 34:8

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 34:22

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 34:28

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 36:4

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 36:5

    • 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.’

    Ezekiel 38:12

    • 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?’

    Ezekiel 38:13

    • בַּ֖זbaznoun · masculine singulartagged: spoil

The letters

Gematria 9

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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