Words the Bible translates as booty
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- shalalשָׁלָלspoil: the goods, animals, and captives carried off as the prize of victory
- bazבַּזwar plunder: the goods or people seized and carried off by force from a defeated enemy
- bizzahבִּזָּהspoil: what is seized and carried off from a defeated enemy, whether the plundered goods themselves or the experience of being plundered
- malqo'aḥמַלְקוֹחַcaptured living plunder: the people and animals a victor takes alive and keeps
+1 more meaning
- the jaws: the inside of the mouth, named as the part that takes food in
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