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HebrewH7998Noun (Masculine)

שָׁלָל

sha.lal

59Occurrences
H7998Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

booty

from H7997 (שָׁלַל);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. prey, plunder, spoil, booty 1a) prey 1b) booty, spoil, plunder (of war) 1c) plunder (private) 1d) gain (meaning uncertain)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

שָׁלָל appears 59 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Samuel
9
Isaiah
6
Jeremiah
6
2 Chronicles
5
Joshua
5
Ezk
4
2 Samuel
3
Deuteronomy
3

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 20:2BSB

Then David took the crown from the head of their king. It was found to weigh a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.

2 Chronicles 15:11BSB

At that time they sacrificed to the LORD seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep from all the plunder they had brought back.

Deuteronomy 20:14BSB

But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.

Isaiah 10:6BSB

I will send him against a godless nation;I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage,to take spoils and seize plunder,and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

Jeremiah 45:5BSB

But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I will bring disaster on every living creature, declares the LORD, but wherever you go, I will grant your life as a spoil of war.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.