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sha.lal H7998

שָׁלָל (sha.lal) means “spoil” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

שָׁלָל Hebrew · H7998 73 tagged occurrences in 64 verses

Pronunciation guide: shaw-lawl' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H7998

שָׁלָל · sha.lal · spoil

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

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H7997 (שָׁלַל); booty

KJV glosses: prey, spoil.

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How translators render H7998

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
the plunder 15
the spoil 6
plunder 5
and plunder 3
from the plunder 3
like a spoil of war 3
from his plunder 2
its plunder 2
its spoil 2
of plunder 2
spoil 2
the spoils 2
a plunder 1
all the plunder 1
among the spoils 1
amount of plunder 1
and from the spoil 1
and loot 1
and the plunder 1
and to plunder 1
as a spoil of war 1
it 1
loot 1
of spoils 1
of the looter 1
of the plunder 1
of value 1
plundered 1
some of the plunder 1
spoils 1
their plunder 1
their possessions 1
their prey 1
to the plunder 1
when your plunder 1
will be spoil 1
with plunder 1
your spoil o nations 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
the spoil 15
spoil 9
of the spoil 6
all the spoil 4
and the spoil 4
a spoil 3
a prey 2
and all the spoil 2
of his prey 2
upon the spoil 2
among the spoils 1
and of the spoil 1
and spoil 1
and thy spoil 1
and with the spoil 1
and your spoil 1
for a prey 1
for a spoil 1
for you of the spoil 1
her spoil 1
may be their prey 1
neither spoil 1
of spoil 1
only the spoil 1
out of the spoils 1
shall be a spoil 1
shall be for a prey 1
shall be unto him for a prey 1
the prey 1
to the spoil 1
unto ourselves and the spoil 1
unto thee for a prey 1
upon them and they shall be a spoil 1
with spoil 1

Verses containing H7998

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  1. Genesis 49:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”

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  2. Exodus 15:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’

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  3. Numbers 31:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals.

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  4. Numbers 31:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They brought the captives, spoils, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.

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  5. Deuteronomy 2:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.

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  6. Deuteronomy 3:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But all the livestock and plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves.

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  7. Deuteronomy 13:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.

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    Source alternate reference: 13.17

  8. Deuteronomy 20:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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.

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  9. Joshua 7:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”

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  10. Joshua 8:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”

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  11. Joshua 8:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.

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  12. Joshua 11:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The Israelites took for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but they put all the people to the sword until they had completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone who breathed.

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  13. Joshua 22:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth, with immense herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and very many clothes. Divide with your brothers the spoil of your enemies.”

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  14. Judges 5:30 · BSB · 4 occurrences

    ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil—a girl or two for each warrior, a plunder of dyed garments for Sisera, the spoil of embroidered garments for the neck of the looter?’

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  15. Judges 8:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then he added, “Let me make a request of you, that each of you give me an earring from his plunder.” (For the enemies had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)

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  16. Judges 8:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “We will give them gladly,” they replied. So they spread out a garment, and each man threw an earring from his plunder onto it.

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  17. 1 Samuel 14:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    How much better it would have been if the troops had eaten freely today from the plunder they took from their enemies! Would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been much greater?”

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  18. 1 Samuel 14:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So they rushed greedily to the plunder, taking sheep, cattle, and calves. They slaughtered them on the ground and ate meat with the blood still in it.

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  19. 1 Samuel 15:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you rush upon the plunder and do evil in the sight of the LORD?”

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  20. 1 Samuel 15:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The troops took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of the things devoted to destruction, in order to sacrifice them to the LORD your God at Gilgal.”

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  21. 1 Samuel 30:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So he led David down, and there were the Amalekites spread out over all the land, eating, drinking, and celebrating the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.

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  22. 1 Samuel 30:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Nothing was missing, young or old, son or daughter, or any of the plunder the Amalekites had taken. David brought everything back.

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  23. 1 Samuel 30:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And he took all the flocks and herds, which his men drove ahead of the other livestock, calling out, “This is David’s plunder!”

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  24. 1 Samuel 30:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    but all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered, except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”

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  25. 1 Samuel 30:26 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    When David arrived in Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “Here is a gift for you from the plunder of the LORD’s enemies.”

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  26. 2 Samuel 3:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Just then David’s soldiers and Joab returned from a raid, bringing with them a great plunder. But Abner was not with David in Hebron, because David had sent him on his way in peace.

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  27. 2 Samuel 8:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    from Edom and Moab, from the Ammonites and Philistines and Amalekites, and from the spoil of Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

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  28. 2 Samuel 12:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then he took the crown from the head of their king. It weighed 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.

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  29. 2 Kings 3:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “This is blood!” they exclaimed. “The kings have clashed swords and slaughtered one another. Now to the plunder, Moab!”

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  30. 1 Chronicles 20:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  31. 1 Chronicles 26:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They had dedicated some of the plunder from their battles to the repair of the house of the LORD.

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  32. 2 Chronicles 14:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell and could not recover, for they were crushed before the LORD and His army. So the people of Judah carried off a great amount of plunder

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    Source alternate reference: 14.12

  33. 2 Chronicles 15:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

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  34. 2 Chronicles 20:25 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to carry off the plunder, and they found on the bodies an abundance of goods and valuables—more than they could carry away. They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much.

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  35. 2 Chronicles 24:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In the spring, the army of Aram went to war against Joash. They entered Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the leaders of the people, and they sent all the plunder to their king in Damascus.

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  36. 2 Chronicles 28:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their kinsmen—women, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a great deal of plunder and brought it to Samaria.

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  37. 2 Chronicles 28:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the men who were designated by name arose, took charge of the captives, and provided from the plunder clothing for the naked. They clothed them, gave them sandals and food and drink, anointed their wounds, and put all the feeble on donkeys. So they brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

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  38. Esther 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

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  39. Esther 8:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.

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  40. Psalms 68:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Kings and their armies flee in haste; she who waits at home divides the plunder.

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    Source alternate reference: 68.13

  41. Psalms 119:162 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I rejoice in Your promise like one who finds great spoil.

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  42. Proverbs 1:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.

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  43. Proverbs 16:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    It is better to be lowly in spirit among the humble than to divide the spoil with the proud.

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  44. Proverbs 31:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he lacks nothing of value.

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  45. Isaiah 8:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”

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  46. Isaiah 9:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.

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    Source alternate reference: 9.2

  47. Isaiah 10:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.

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  48. Isaiah 10:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  49. Isaiah 33:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Your spoil, O nations, is gathered as by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men sweep over it.

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  50. Isaiah 33:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.

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