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Strong's H962 בָּזַז (bazaz)

Bazaz means “plunder” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G962 — bethabara in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H962
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 39
Books 15

Strong's H962 Quick Answer

Strong's H962 בָּזַז (bazaz) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. bazaz (baw-zaz') v. 1. to plunder [a primitive root] It has 39 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include take, spoil, prey, spoiled, and they. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
bazaz (baw-zaz') v. 1. to plunder [a primitive root]
Usage
39 linked usages
Books
15 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
take, spoil, prey, spoiled, and they

Meaning and Definition

bazaz (baw-zaz') v. 1. to plunder [a primitive root] KJV: catch, gather, (take) for a prey, rob(-ber), spoil, take (away, spoil), X utterly.

Original Word
בָּזַז
Transliteration
bazaz
Derivation
Root: בזז
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H962. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to plunder

Usage: 1) to spoil, plunder, prey upon, seize 1a) (Qal) to spoil, plunder, despoil 1b) (Niphal) to be spoiled, plundered 1c) (Pual) to be taken as spoil

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How Strong's H962 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render bazaz, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

take Deuteronomy 20:14 10× spoil Numbers 31:9 prey Numbers 31:32 spoiled 2 Kings 7:16 gathered Ezekiel 38:12 they Genesis 34:27 catch Psalms 109:11 gather Esther 8:11 gathering 2 Chronicles 20:25 rob Isaiah 17:14

How Strong's H962 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 39 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H962 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H962 in the Old Testament

39 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 34:27 KJV

The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.

Genesis 34:29 KJV

And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

Numbers 31:9 KJV

And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.

Usage Excerpts

First 39 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H962.

Genesis 34:27 Old Testament, KJV
The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Genesis 34:29 Old Testament, KJV
And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.
Numbers 31:9 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
Numbers 31:32 Old Testament, KJV
And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
Numbers 31:53 Old Testament, KJV
(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)
Deuteronomy 2:35 Old Testament, KJV
Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
Deuteronomy 3:7 Old Testament, KJV
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
Deuteronomy 20:14 Old Testament, KJV
But 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 8:2 Old Testament, KJV
And 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.
Joshua 8:27 Old Testament, KJV
Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.
Joshua 11:14 Old Testament, KJV
And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.
1 Samuel 14:36 Old Testament, KJV
And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.
2 Kings 7:16 Old Testament, KJV
And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 14:14 Old Testament, KJV
And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.
2 Chronicles 20:25 Old Testament, KJV
And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.
2 Chronicles 25:13 Old Testament, KJV
But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.
2 Chronicles 28:8 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
Esther 3:13 Old Testament, KJV
And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
Esther 8:11 Old Testament, KJV
Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
Psalms 109:11 Old Testament, KJV
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
Isaiah 10:2 Old Testament, KJV
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Isaiah 10:6 Old Testament, KJV
I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 11:14 Old Testament, KJV
But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
Isaiah 17:14 Old Testament, KJV
And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
Isaiah 24:3 Old Testament, KJV
The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
Isaiah 33:23 Old Testament, KJV
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
Isaiah 42:22 Old Testament, KJV
But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Isaiah 42:24 Old Testament, KJV
Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
Jeremiah 20:5 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.
Jeremiah 30:16 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
Jeremiah 50:37 Old Testament, KJV
A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
Ezekiel 26:12 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
Ezekiel 29:19 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
Ezekiel 38:12 Old Testament, KJV
To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
Ezekiel 38:13 Old Testament, KJV
Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
Ezekiel 39:10 Old Testament, KJV
So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
Amos 3:11 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
Nahum 2:9 Old Testament, KJV
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
Zephaniah 2:9 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H962, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 3 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 3 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 4 usages, Old Testament
Esther 2 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 8 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 5 usages, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H962 FAQ

What does bazaz (בָּזַז) mean?

Bazaz (Strong's H962) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "plunder". bazaz (baw-zaz') v. 1. to plunder [a primitive root]

How many times is bazaz (בָּזַז) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 39 linked usages for Strong's H962 across 15 books.

Where can I study bazaz (בָּזַז) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H962 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate bazaz (בָּזַז)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as take, spoil, prey, spoiled, they, and gathered. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.