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title: שָׁסָה — spoil · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׁסָה (8154), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 11 times: spoil. BDB 1906: vb. spoil, plunder Qal. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׁסָה

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«שָׁסָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **spoil** — 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:** 11 times · **Key:** 8154 · **BDB:** שָׁסָה

### Glosses

of (3); of.plunderers (2); I.have.plundered (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

spoil [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8154/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. spoil, plunder Qal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8154/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. spoil, plunder (rarer syn. of שׁלל, בזז; with this √ WMMAs. u. Eur. 131 connects Egypt. name of Beduin plunderers Šôs \[ša-su, ša-sa\]; connex. doubted by JenZA x (1895), 331);— Pf. 3 pl. שָׁ֫סוּ לָ֫מוֹ ψ 44:11 they plunder for themselves; Impf. 3 ms. יִשְׁסֶה אוֹצַר וגו׳ Ho 13:15; elsewhere Pt. שֹׁסִים plunderers Ju 2:14; 2 K 17:20; c. acc. loc. 1 S 23:1; c. sf. (as obj.) שֹׁסֵ֫הוּ 1 S 14:48 (prob. pl. = שֹׁסֵ֫יהוּ, so Sta p. 355 Dr Bu, cf. Ges§ 91 k), שׁוֹסֵ֫ינוּ Is 17:14 (‖ בֹּזְזֵינוּ), שֹׁסֵיהֶם Ju 2:16; שֹׁסַ֫יִךְ Je 30:16 Qr (Kt v. שסס; ‖ בֹּזְזַיִךְ); cstr. שֹׁסֵי נַחֲלָתִי 50:11; pass. עַם־בָּזוּז זְשָׁסוּי Is 42:22. = Qal Pf. 1 s. שׁוֹשֵׂתִי (Ges§ 6 k) Is 10:13, c. acc. rei; read also prob. Pt. מְשׁוֹסֶה Is 42:24 (‖ בֹּזְזִים), for משוסה Kt, מְשִׁסָּה Qr; so Du Klo Che Hpt. Marti.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׁסָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8154/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Judges 2:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.2.16/)

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וַיָּ֥קֶם יְהוָ֖ה שֹֽׁפְטִ֑ים וַיּ֣וֹשִׁיע֔וּם מִיַּ֖ד שֹׁסֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.raised.up Yahweh judges and they delivered.them from the.hand of their.plunderers

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

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[Psalms 44:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.44.11/)

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תְּשִׁיבֵ֣נוּ אָ֭חוֹר מִנִּי־צָ֑ר וּ֝מְשַׂנְאֵ֗ינוּ שָׁ֣סוּ לָֽמוֹ׃

*Word for word:* you have.made.us.turn.back backwards from \[the\].foe and \[those who\].hate.us they.have.plundered for themselves

*JPS 1917:* Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; and they that hate us spoil at their will.

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