προνομεύω
plunder, take as spoil
Where this word appears
Every passage where προνομεύω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 33 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Numbers 21:1 προνομεύω And Arad the Chananitish king who lived by the wilderness, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharin; and he made war on Israel, and carried off some of them captives.
- Numbers 24:17 προνομεύω I will point to him, but not now; I bless him, but he draws not near: a star shall rise out of Jacob, a man shall spring out of Israel; and shall crush the princes of Moab, and shall spoil all the sons of Seth.
- Numbers 31:9 προνομεύω And they made a prey of the women of Madian, and their store, and their cattle, and all their possessions: and they spoiled their forces.
- Numbers 31:9 προνομεύω And they made a prey of the women of Madian, and their store, and their cattle, and all their possessions: and they spoiled their forces.
- Numbers 31:32 προνομεύω And that which remained of the spoil which the warriors took, was—of the sheep, six hundred and seventy-five thousand:
- Numbers 31:53 προνομεύω For the men of war took plunder every one for himself.
- Deuteronomy 2:35 προνομεύω Only we took the cattle captive, and took the spoil of the cities.
- Deuteronomy 3:7 προνομεύω and all the cattle; and we took for a prey to ourselves the spoil of the cities.
- Deuteronomy 20:14 προνομεύω except the women and the stuff: and all the cattle, and whatever shall be in the city, and all the plunder you shall take as spoil for yourself, and shall eat all the plunder of your enemies whom the Lord your God gives you.
- Deuteronomy 21:10 προνομεύω And if when you go out to war against your enemies, the Lord your God should deliver them into your hands, and you should take their spoil,
- Joshua 8:2 προνομεύω And you shall do to Gai, as you did to Jericho and its king; and you shall take to yourself the spoil of its cattle; set now for yourself an ambush for the city behind.
- Joshua 8:27 προνομεύω Beside the spoils that were in the city, all things which the children of Israel took as spoil for themselves according to the command of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Joshua.
- Joshua 11:14 προνομεύω And the children of Israel took all its spoils to themselves; and they killed all the men with the edge of the sword, until he destroyed them; they left not one of them breathing.
- Judges 2:14 προνομεύω And the Lord was very angry with Israel; and he gave them into the hands of the spoilers, and they spoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, and they could not any longer resist their enemies,
- Judges 2:14 προνομεύω And the Lord was very angry with Israel; and he gave them into the hands of the spoilers, and they spoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, and they could not any longer resist their enemies,
- Judges 2:16 προνομεύω And the Lord raised up judges, and the Lord save them out of the hands of them that spoiled them: and yet they listened not to the judges,
- Isaiah 8:3 προνομεύω And I went in to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me, Call his name, Spoil quickly, plunder speedily.
- Isaiah 10:13 προνομεύω For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of my understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength.
- Isaiah 11:14 προνομεύω And they shall fly in the ships of the Philistines: they shall at the same time spoil the sea, and them that come from the east, and Idumea: and they shall lay their hands on Moab first; but the children of Ammon shall first obey them.
- Isaiah 13:16 προνομεύω And they shall dash their children before their eyes; and they shall spoil their houses, and shall take their wives.
- Isaiah 17:14 προνομεύω Toward evening, and there shall be grief; before the morning, and he shall not be. This is the portion of them that spoiled you, and the inheritance to them that robbed you of your inheritance.
- Isaiah 24:3 προνομεύω The earth shall be completely laid waste, and the earth shall be utterly spoiled: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken these things.
- Isaiah 42:22 προνομεύω And I saw, and the people were spoiled and plundered: for there is a snare in the secret chambers everywhere, and in the houses also, where they have hidden them: they became a spoil, and there was no one that delivered the prey, and there was none who said, Restore.
- Isaiah 42:24 προνομεύω For what did he give to Jacob up to spoil, and Israel to them that plundered him? Did not God do it against whom they sinned? and they would not walk in his ways, nor listen to his law.
- Jeremiah 27:10 προνομεύω And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied.
- Jeremiah 37:16 προνομεύω And they that spoil you shall become a spoil, and I will give up to be plundered all that have plundered you.
- Ezekiel 26:12 προνομεύω And he shall prey upon your power, and plunder your substance, and shall cast down your walls, and break down your pleasant houses: and he shall cast your stones and your timber and your dust into the midst of your sea.
- Ezekiel 29:19 προνομεύω Thus says the Lord God; Behold, I will give to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon the land of Egypt, and he shall take the plunder thereof, and seize the spoils thereof; and it shall be a reward for his army.
- Ezekiel 30:24 προνομεύω And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword into his hand: and he shall bring it upon Egypt, and shall take her plunder and seize her spoils.
- Ezekiel 38:12 προνομεύω to seize plunder, and to take their spoil; to turn my hands against the desolate land that is now inhabited, and against a nation that is gathered from many nations, that have acquired property, dwelling in the midst of the land.
- Ezekiel 38:13 προνομεύω Sabba, and Daedan, and Carthaginian merchants, and all their villages shall say to you, You are come for plunder to take a prey, and to get spoils: you have gathered your multitude to take silver and gold, to carry off property, to take spoils.
- Ezekiel 39:10 προνομεύω and they shall not take any wood out of the field, neither shall they cut any out of the forests, but they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall plunder those that plundered them, and spoil those that spoiled them, says the Lord.
- Ezekiel 39:10 προνομεύω and they shall not take any wood out of the field, neither shall they cut any out of the forests, but they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall plunder those that plundered them, and spoil those that spoiled them, says the Lord.
About this word
About this word
προνομεύω (pronomeúō), “plunder, take as spoil,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 33 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →