וְכָל הַבְּהֵמָ֛ה וּשְׁלַ֥ל הֶעָרִ֖ים בַּזּ֥וֹנוּ לָֽנוּ
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Deuteronomy 3:7
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Deuteronomy 3:7 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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World English Bible Public Domain
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
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King James Version Public Domain
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we plundered for ourselves.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
But all the livestock and plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
But all the livestock and plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves.
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King James Version Public Domain
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
But all the cattell and the spoyle of the cities we tooke for our selues.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
But the cattle and the spoils of the cities we took for our prey.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we have spoiled for ourselves.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and all the livestock, and the spoil of the cities, we have spoiled for ourselves.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities, we took as spoils for ourselves.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we plundered for ourselves.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
But all the livestock, and the plunder of the cities, we took for plunder for ourselves.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
But we took for ourselves all the livestock and plunder from the towns.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
But we took for ourselves all the cattle and the stored wealth of the towns.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves.
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בַּזּ֥וֹנוּ
bâzaz
H962
“to plunder”
Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Plural
- Appears 43× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 34:27
- Part of Speech
- Verb
- Stem
- Qal
- Form
- Perfect
- Person
- 1st Person
- Gender
- Common
- Number
- Plural
Full BDB Definition
to spoil, plunder, prey upon, seize
- (Qal) to spoil, plunder, despoil
- (Niphal) to be spoiled, plundered
- (Pual) to be taken as spoil
- וְכָל kôl H3605 “and · all of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- הַבְּהֵמָ֛ה bᵉhêmâh H929 “the · beast” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וּשְׁלַ֥ל shâlâl H7998 “and · plunder of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- הֶעָרִ֖ים ʻîyr H5892 “the · cities” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- בַּזּ֥וֹנוּ bâzaz H962 “to plunder” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Plural
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- words
- 5
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
בַּזּ֥וֹנוּ to plunder H962 occurs in 39 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 4 nouns
- 1 preposition
Verb forms
- בַּזּ֥וֹנוּ Qal · Perfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 17 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 6 Hebrew tokens and 11 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Cross-references
3Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 3:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 2:35 only the cattle we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.
- Joshua 8:27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua.
- Joshua 11:11–14 They struck all the souls who were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was none left who breathed: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί πᾶς ὁ κτῆνος καί ὁ σκῦλον ὁ πόλις προνομεύω ἑαυτοῦ
and all the cattle; and we took for a prey to ourselves the spoil of the cities.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְכָל בְּעִירָא וַעֲדִי קִרְוַיָא בַּזָנָא לָנָא
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְכָל בְּעִירֵי וְעֶדְיֵי קִרְוַיָא בָּזָנָא לָנָא
But all the cattle, and the prey of the cities, we made a spoil for ourselves.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 6 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is bâzaz (“to plunder”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “to plunder” (bâzaz) shape what this verse is saying?
- How does Genesis 34:27, which shares the word «to plunder», read alongside this verse?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- «בַּזּ֥וֹנוּ» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 3 words in this verse.
- 5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Deuteronomy 3:7 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.