Words the Bible translates as spoil
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 15 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- natsalנָצַלto rescue: to snatch someone out of danger, into safety
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- to strip off and carry away: to take plunder, or pull clothing or ornaments off
- shaḥatשָׁחַתto ruin: to wreck something so it no longer works as it should, whether a thing, a people, or a person's own moral character
- shalalשָׁלָלspoil: the goods, animals, and captives carried off as the prize of victory
- bazazבָּזַזto plunder: to carry off the goods, livestock, and people of a defeated enemy as the spoils of war
- gazalגָּזַלto take by open force: to rob, seize, or tear something away from the one who holds it
- ḥavalחָבַלto ruin or destroy: to do violent harm, spoil, or act corruptly
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- to take or hold something as a pledge: to seize a borrower's property as security for a debt
- to writhe in labor: to conceive or be gripped by the pangs of giving birth
- bazבַּזwar plunder: the goods or people seized and carried off by force from a defeated enemy
- shodשֹׁדforcible devastation: the ruin of violent plundering, whether the destroying act or the havoc it leaves behind
- terephטֶרֶףprey: the flesh a predator tears and eats, and by extension what is seized as plunder or simply provided as food
- shalalשָׁלַלto plunder: to seize and carry off goods, wealth, or captives by force, especially from a defeated enemy in war.
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- to draw out: to pull stalks of grain out from the gathered bundles and leave them behind.
- 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
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- the jaws: the inside of the mouth, named as the part that takes food in
- matsodמָצוֹדa hunting net: the gear that closes on a catch, and so a picture of being taken with no way out.
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- a fortification: the works an army raises around a city it is besieging, or the fortified place people are kept safe in or shut up in.
- shasasשָׁסַסto plunder: to strip people or a place bare by force, the way raiders do when they ransack whatever they overrun
- ḥalitsahחֲלִיצָהspoilnot studied yet
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