בָּזַז bazaz

Hebrew word for “to plunder” · Strong’s H962 · used 43 times in 39 verses

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Meaning

1) to spoil, plunder, prey upon, seize;

How it is translated

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

• plundered 11
• will plunder 6
• will take as spoil 4
• plunder 3
• will be plundered 3
• take as plunder 2
• take as spoil 2
• those who despoil 2
• had plundered 1
• had taken plunder 1
• us plunder 1
• plundering 1

Where it is used

Also in 3 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 31 (3), Genesis 34 (2), Joshua 8 (2), Isaiah 10 (2), Isaiah 42 (2), Ezekiel 38 (2), Deuteronomy 2 (1), Deuteronomy 3 (1), Deuteronomy 20 (1), Joshua 11 (1)

Forms

• בזזו 7
• ויבזו 6
• ובזזו 3
• לבוז 2
• יבזו 2
• ולבז 2
• בזו 2
• בזזנו 1
• בזונו 1
• תבז 1

Words used with it

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

• שָׁלָל shalal “spoil” 16
• בַּז baz “plunder” 8
• שָׁלַל shalal “to loot” 6
• עִיר ir “city” 11
• בְּהֵמָה behemah “animal” 7
• טַף taph “child” 5
• רַק raq “except” 5
• מְשִׁסָּה meshissah “plunder” 3
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 7
• חַיִל chayil “strength” 5
• הֶם hem “them” 7
• שָׁבָה shavah “to take captive” 3

Key verses

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

• 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…
• 2 Chronicles 14:14 — And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil…
• Isaiah 10:2 — To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the…
• 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 11:14 — But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and…
• Isaiah 17:14 — And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
• 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…
• Isaiah 42:24 — Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they…
• Jeremiah 20:5 — Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of…
• 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…
• Jeremiah 50:37 — A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is…
• Zephaniah 2:9 — Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of…

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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.