בִּזָּה
bizzâh · biz-zaw'
booty
Lexicon
Derivation: feminine of H957 (בַּז);
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
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › to cut, to sustain › to reveal, behold
The house, what is within that works to cut, to sustain that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בִּזָּה 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
10 occurrences · 10 OT · 0 NT · 8 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- spoil2 · 20%
- and the spoil1 · 10%
- and to a spoil1 · 10%
- them for a prey1 · 10%
- they; but on the spoil1 · 10%
- but on the prey1 · 10%
- on the prey1 · 10%
- among them the prey1 · 10%
- and by spoil1 · 10%
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.