בַּז baz

Hebrew word for “plunder” · Strong’s H957 · used 25 times in 25 verses

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Meaning

spoil, booty, robbery, spoiling; Also means: bag (בַּג "spoil" H0897)

How it is translated

Glosses given for baz in context, with how often each is used:

• spoil 15
• plunder 7
• prey 2
• becomes spoil 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 34 (3), Numbers 14 (2), Ezekiel 36 (2), Ezekiel 38 (2), Numbers 31 (1), Deuteronomy 1 (1), 2 Kings 21 (1), Isaiah 10 (1), Isaiah 33 (1), Isaiah 42 (1)

Forms

• לבז 17
• בז 5
• הבז 1
• ולבז 1
• בזה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with baz more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• בָּזַז bazaz “to plunder” 8
• שָׁלָל shalal “spoil” 7
• שָׁלַל shalal “to loot” 4
• גּוֹי goy “nation” 7
• יְהֹוִה yehovih “YHWH/God” 6
• מְשִׁסָּה meshissah “plunder” 3
• אֲדֹנָי adonai “Lord” 6
• טַף taph “child” 3
• מִקְנֶה miqneh “livestock” 3
• שְׁאֵרִית sheerit “remnant” 3
• כֵּן ken “so” 5
• קִנְיָן qinyan “acquisition” 2

Key verses

The verses using baz that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Numbers 14:31 — But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
• 2 Kings 21:14 — And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their…
• 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 33:23 — Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take…
• Isaiah 42:22 — But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for…
• Jeremiah 17:3 — O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
• Jeremiah 30:16 — Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be…
• Ezekiel 29:19 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her…
• Ezekiel 34:8 — As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd,…
• Ezekiel 36:4 — Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the…
• Ezekiel 36:5 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have…
• Ezekiel 38:13 — Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy…

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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.