Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H7998

שָׁלָל

sha.lal · “spoil”

Used 74 times across 19 books

Definition

1) prey, plunder, spoil, booty
1a) prey
1b) booty, spoil, plunder (of war)
1c) plunder (private)
1d) gain (meaning uncertain)

Where it appears

Genesis

1

Exodus

1

Numbers

2

Deuteronomy

6

Joshua

5

Judges

6

1 Samuel

11

2 Samuel

3

2 Kings

1

1 Chronicles

2

2 Chronicles

8

Esther

2

Psalms

2

Proverbs

3

Isaiah

7

Jeremiah

6

Ezekiel

5

Daniel

1

Zechariah

2

In the text

Genesis 49:27Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.Exodus 15:9The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.Numbers 31:11And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.Numbers 31:12And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.Deuteronomy 2:35Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.Deuteronomy 3:7But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.Deuteronomy 13:17And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;Deuteronomy 20:14But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.Joshua 7:21When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.Joshua 8:2And 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 yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.

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