שָׁלָל shalal
Hebrew word for “spoil” · Strong’s H7998 · used 73 times in 64 verses
Meaning
1) prey, plunder, spoil, booty; 1a) prey; 1b) booty, spoil, plunder (of war); 1c) plunder (private); 1d) gain (meaning uncertain)
How it is translated
Glosses given for shalal in context, with how often each is used:
- plunder 45
- booty 20
- spoil 2
- among the booty 1
- any of the plunder 1
- any of the booty 1
- some of the booty 1
- gain 1
- prey 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Samuel | 10 | 0.8 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 8 | 0.6 | |
| Isaiah | 7 | 0.4 | |
| Deuteronomy | 6 | 0.4 | |
| Judges | 6 | 0.6 | |
| Jeremiah | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Joshua | 5 | 0.5 | |
| Ezekiel | 5 | 0.3 | |
| 2 Samuel | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Proverbs | 3 | 0.4 | |
| Numbers | 2 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Chronicles | 2 | 0.2 |
Also in 7 more books.
Chapters where it is used most
1 Samuel 30 (5), Numbers 31 (2), Joshua 8 (2), Judges 8 (2), 1 Samuel 14 (2), 1 Samuel 15 (2), 2 Chronicles 28 (2), Isaiah 10 (2), Isaiah 33 (2), Ezekiel 38 (2)
Forms
- שׁלל 25
- השׁלל 10
- ושׁלל 8
- לשׁלל 8
- שׁללה 5
- מהשׁלל 3
- שׁללם 3
- שׁללו 2
- משׁלל 2
- ומשׁלל 2
Words used with it
Words that share verses with shalal more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- בָּזַז bazaz “to plunder” 16
- חָלַק chalaq “to divide” 10
- בַּז baz “plunder” 7
- עִיר ir “city” 12
- שָׁלַל shalal “to loot” 5
- בְּהֵמָה behemah “animal” 7
- לָקַח laqach “to take” 10
- מִקְנֶה miqneh “livestock” 5
- הֶם hem “them” 9
- רָבָה ravah “to multiply” 6
- רַק raq “except” 5
- זָהָב zahav “gold” 6
Key verses
The verses using shalal that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 49:27 — Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
- Exodus 15:9 — The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
- Joshua 7:21 — When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them,…
- Joshua 8:2 — And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto…
- 1 Samuel 30:16 — And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that…
- Psalms 68:12 — Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
- Isaiah 8:4 — For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king…
- Isaiah 9:3 — Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
- Isaiah 10:6 — I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to…
- Isaiah 53:12 — Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was…
- Jeremiah 38:2 — Thus saith the LORD, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans…
- Zechariah 14:1 — Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.