Words the Bible translates as prey
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 9 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
- terephטֶרֶףprey: the flesh a predator tears and eats, and by extension what is seized as plunder or simply provided as food
- matsudahמְצוּדָהa hunter's net or snare: a trap that closes on prey, and so on a person who cannot escape.
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- a stronghold: a fortified or, more often, a rugged natural height that keeps its occupant safe from attack.
- okhlahאׇכְלָהfood: something given to be eaten or consumed, whether nourishment for the living, prey for wild animals, or fuel for fire
- bizzahבִּזָּהspoil: what is seized and carried off from a defeated enemy, whether the plundered goods themselves or the experience of being plundered
- terephahטְרֵפָהan animal killed and ripped open by a wild beast, and so the mangled remains it leaves behind
- malqo'aḥמַלְקוֹחַcaptured living plunder: the people and animals a victor takes alive and keeps
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- the jaws: the inside of the mouth, named as the part that takes food in
- adעַדpreynot studied yet
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