Lexical Summary shalal: a prey, spoil, plunder, booty Original Word: שָׁלָלTransliteration: shalal Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-lawl') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a prey, spoil, plunder, booty Meaning: a prey, spoil, plunder, booty Strong's Concordance prey, spoil From shalal; booty -- prey, spoil. see HEBREW shalal Brown-Driver-Briggs H7998. shalal שָׁלָל75 noun masculine1 Samuel 30:16 prey, spoil, plunder, booty; — absolute ׳שׁ Genesis 49:27 +; construct שְׁלַל Judges 5:30 +, suffix שְׁלָלֵךְ Zechariah 14:1, שְׁלַלְכֶם Isaiah 33:4, etc.; — 1 prey, of Benjamin as wolf Genesis 49:27 (poem in J; with חִלֵּק). 2 booty, spoil of war, of all kinds (often "" בַּז): including garments, gold and silver Joshua 7:21 (J), ornaments Judges 8:24-25, fabrics and women 5:30 a, b, flocks and herds 1 Samuel 30:20; Jeremiah 49:32; 2 Chronicles 15:11, + persons Deuteronomy 20:14 (twice in verse), garments, food and drink 2 Chronicles 28:15, etc. (58 t.; among these) הֶעָרִים שְׁלַל Deuteronomy 2:25; 2 Samuel 12:30; 1 Chronicles 20:2 and (+ cattle in addition) Deuteronomy 3:7; Joshua 8:27; 11:14 (both RD), compare (also of city) Isaiah 8:4; Deuteronomy 13:17 (twice in verse); Zechariah 14:1 and (+ cattle) Joshua 8:2 (RD), but including person and cattle Deuteronomy 20:14, compare 20:14; figurative of entire nation Jeremiah 50:10; Ezekiel 7:21; Zechariah 2:13; ׳שׁ in symbolic proper name וגו שָׁלָל ׳מַהֵר Isaiah 8:1, 3, see above p.555:a; ׳שׁ in metaphor of future majesty of י ׳עֶבֶד 53:12; לְשׁ נַפְשׁוֺ ׳וְהֳיְתָהאלּוֺ i.e. life shall be spared, Jeremiah 21:9; 38:2; 39:18, compare 45:5. 3 private plunder Isaiah 10:2 (שְׁלָלָם אַלְמָנוֺת), Proverbs 1:13 and (perhaps in current saying) 16:19. 4 = gain Proverbs 31:11. — שׁ ׳לְצַוִּארֵי Judges 5:30 c is clearly wrong; meaning dubious (see especially GFM); plausible conjectures are שׁ ׳לְצַוָּארַי for my neck as spoil, ReussBr and others, and שֵׁגָל לְצַוְּארֵי for the neck of the queen Ew Be Kit and others (but שֵׁגָל elsewhere late); Now strike out שָׁלָל and reads לְצַוָּארָיו. |
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