Strong H957בַּז

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In the Bible

Strong H957 appears in 25 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

• prey12
• spoil5
• become4
• should3
• booty1

First verses

1. Numbers 14:3
   And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
2. Numbers 14:31
   But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
3. Numbers 31:32
   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,
4. Deuteronomy 1:39
   Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
5. 2 Kings 21:14
   And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
6. Isaiah 10:6
   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.
7. Isaiah 33:23
   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.
8. Isaiah 42:22
   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.
9. Jeremiah 2:14
   Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
10. Jeremiah 15:13
    Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
11. Jeremiah 17:3
    O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
12. Jeremiah 30:16
    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.
13. Jeremiah 49:32
    And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the Lord.
14. Ezekiel 7:21
    And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
15. Ezekiel 23:46
    For thus saith the Lord God; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
16. Ezekiel 25:7
    Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
17. Ezekiel 26:5
    It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
18. Ezekiel 29:19
    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.
19. Ezekiel 34:8
    As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
20. Ezekiel 34:22
    Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

Occurrences by book

• Numbers3
• Deuteronomy1
• 2 Kings1
• Isaiah3
• Jeremiah5
• Ezekiel12

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