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title: שָׁלָל — prey · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׁלָל (7998), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 73 times: prey. BDB 1906: n.m. prey, spoil, plunder, booty. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׁלָל

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«שָׁלָל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **prey** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 73 times · **Key:** 7998 · **BDB:** שָׁלָל

### Glosses

plunder (33); booty (13); the.booty (9)

### Meaning (OSHB)

prey [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7998/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. prey, spoil, plunder, booty [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7998/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 S 30:16 prey, spoil, plunder, booty;—abs. שׁ׳ Gn 49:27 +; cstr. שְׁלַל Ju 5:30 +, sf. שְׁלָלֵךְ Zc 14:1, שְׁלַלְכֶם Is 33:4, etc.;— prey, of Benj. as wolf Gn 49:27 (poem in J; c. חִלֵּק). booty, spoil of war, of all kinds (often ‖ בַּז): incl. garments, gold and silver Jos 7:21 (J), ornaments Ju 8:24, 25, fabrics and women 5:30 a, b, flocks and herds 1 S 30:20; Je 49:32; 2 Ch 15:11, + persons Dt 20:14(×2), garments, food and drink 2 Ch 28:15, etc. (58 times; among these) שְׁלַל הֶעָרִים Dt 2:25; 2 S 12:30; 1 Ch 20:2 and (+ cattle in addition) Dt 3:7, Jos 8:27; 11:14 (both RD), cf. (also of city) Is 8:4; Dt 13:17(×2); Zc 14:1 and (+ cattle) Jos 8:2 (RD), but incl. pers. and cattle Dt 20:14, cf. v 14; fig. of entire nation Je 50:10; Ez 7:21; Zc 2:13; שׁ׳ in symbol. n.pr. מַהֵר שָׁלָל וגו׳ Is 8:1, 3, v. supr. p. 555a; שׁ׳ in metaph. of future majesty of עֶבֶד י׳ Is 53:12; וְהֳיְתָה־לּוֹ נַפְשׁוֹ לְשׁ׳ i.e. life shall be spared, Je 21:9; 38:2; 39:18, cf. 45:5. private plunder Is 10:2 (אַלְמָנוֹת שְׁלָלָם), Pr 1:13 and (perhaps in current saying) 16:19. = gain Pr 31:11.—לְצַוְּארֵי שׁ׳ Ju 5:30c is clearly wrong; meaning dub. (v. especially GFM); plausible conj. are לְצַוָּארַי שׁ׳ for my neck as spoil, Reuss Br al., and לְצַוְּארֵי שֵׁגָל for the neck of the queen Ew Be Kit al. (but שֵׁגָל elsewhere late); Now del. שָׁלָל and reads לְצַוָּארָיו.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 33 of its verses cited, 4 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׁלָל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7998/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 1:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.13/)

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כָּל־ה֣וֹן יָקָ֣ר נִמְצָ֑א נְמַלֵּ֖א בָתֵּ֣ינוּ שָׁלָֽל׃

*Word for word:* all wealth prized we.will.find we.will.fill houses our plunder

*JPS 1917:* We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil;

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[Psalms 119:162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.162/)

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שָׂ֣שׂ אָ֭נֹכִֽי עַל־אִמְרָתֶ֑ךָ כְּ֝מוֹצֵ֗א שָׁלָ֥ל רָֽב׃

*Word for word:* \[am\].rejoicing I on word your like \[one.who\].brings.out (plunder much

*JPS 1917:* I rejoice at Thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

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