שָׁלָל
shâlâl · shaw-lawl'
booty
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7997 (שָׁלַל);
booty
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: prey, spoil.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › authority, the one who leads › authority, the one who leads
To consume, to destroy of authority, the one who leads of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שָׁלָל above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
73 occurrences · 73 OT · 0 NT · 47 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the spoil12 · 20%
- spoil9 · 15%
- of the spoil5 · 8%
- and the spoil4 · 7%
- all the spoil3 · 5%
- a spoil3 · 5%
- and all the spoil2 · 3%
- a prey2 · 3%
- of his prey2 · 3%
- upon the spoil2 · 3%
- and to take the spoil2 · 3%
- unto ourselves, and the spoil1 · 2%
- even all the spoil1 · 2%
- among the spoils1 · 2%
- only the spoil1 · 2%
- the prey1 · 2%
- of them that take the spoil1 · 2%
- neither spoil1 · 2%
- them ought of the spoil1 · 2%
- for you of the spoil1 · 2%
- and of the spoil1 · 2%
- to the spoil1 · 2%
- out of the spoils1 · 2%
- and with the spoil1 · 2%
- with spoil1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.