בִּזָּה
booty
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H961 appears in the Book of Esther — 3 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Esther
- Esther 9:10 וּ/בַ֨/בִּזָּ֔ה conj + prep det + n c fs the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew's enemy, killed they; but they didn't lay their hand on the spoil.
- Esther 9:15 וּ/בַ֨/בִּזָּ֔ה conj + prep det + n c fs The Jews who were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Shushan; but they didn't lay their hand on the spoil.
- Esther 9:16 וּ/בַ֨/בִּזָּ֔ה conj + prep det + n c fs The other Jews who were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and killed of those who hated them seventy-five thousand; but they didn't lay their hand on the spoil.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“booty” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun בזה (bizzâh). Older and newer Bibles part ways — “spoil” in the King James Version, “plunder” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It appears 10 verses across 5 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in 2 Chronicles. Scripture first uses it in 2 Chronicles 14:14. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H961 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Chronicles 3 verses 30%
- Esther 3 verses 30%
- Daniel 2 verses 20%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 10 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Spoil 5×, Prey 3×
- American Standard Version†: Spoil 5×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Plunder 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Plunder 8×, But 2×, Spoils 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H961 across 10† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H961 across 10† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H961 across 10† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H961 across 12† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- spoil, booty
Word origin
n.f. spoil, booty(late)—בִּזָּה 2 Ch 14:13 + 9 times;—spoil, prey, of things 2 Ch 28:14 Est 9:10, 15, 16, cf. 2 Ch 14:13; 25:13 Dn 11:24 (‖ שָׁלָל & רכושׁ); n. verb., spoiling, בַּב׳ Ezr 9:7 Dn 11:33, cf. also לְב׳ Ne 3:36.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בז (baz) (H957) — spoil.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
בָּזָה
- , v. בזי
בזי
- √בז to tread, v. בּוּז) to tread upon, whence to despise, spurn, degrade. Ab. d’R. Nath. ch. XXIX הבּוֹזֶה את חבירו וכ׳ he who spurns his neighbor (rebuking him) for a sacred cause. Ib. הן בּוֹזִין בעצמן they make themselves contemptible (neglecting their appearance). Part. pass. בָּזוּי, f. בְּזוּיָה. Y. Sot. V, end, 20ᵈ שהיתה נבואתו ב׳ his prophetic gift was degraded (by him). Ruth. R. to I, 1 מי שהוא ב׳ בדבריו he who becomes contemptible through his own words (in not practicing what he teaches). Cant. R. to VI, 5 מה עז זו ב׳ as the goat is despised כך בְּזוּיִין וכ׳ so were the Israelites made despicable at Shittim (through debauchery); a. fr.
- same. Ab. d’R. Nath. l. c. Y. Sot. l. c. he (Isaac) is called Buzi, שבי׳ את וכ׳ because he made all idolatrous temples appear contemptible (by his willingness to be sacrificed to the Lord). Gen. R. s. 30 (play on בוז Job XII, 5) שהיו מְבַזִּים עליו they sneered at him. Snh. 65ᵇ בִּיזִּיתוֹ thou hast insulted him. Aboth III, 11 המְבַזֶּה את וכ׳ he who disregards the festive weeks (treating them as week days); a. fr.—Part. Pu. מְבוּזֶּה, pl. מְבוּזִּין. Ab. Zar. III, 3 המב׳ common vessels, opp. מכובדין ornamental; Tosef. ib. V (VI), 1 בזויין ed. Zuck. (Var. מב׳); Y. ib. III, 42ᵈ; a. e. e.g. Job 12:5
- to be despised, humbled, exposed. Y. Taan. II, beg. 65ᵃ you cannot compare המִתְבַּזֶּה מעצמו וכ׳ one who humbles himself to one who is humbled by others. Keth. 97ᵇ. Ruth. R. to I, 1 אימתי ד"ת מִתְבַּזִּין וכ׳ when are the words of the Law despised by the people? When the scholars make them contemptible (through their conduct); a. fr.
בִּזָּה
- , v. בִּיוָּה
זֶה
- (b. h.) this, that. Men. 53ᵇ יבא זה וכ׳ let this one come and receive this &c.; זה זה משה ‘this one’ that means Moses; זאת זו התורה ‘this’—that means the Law. Gen. R. s. 4 לגיון זה this legion; a. v. fr.—זֶהוּ = זה הוא, this is. Sabb. 40ᵇ הפשרו זהו בישולו (also זה הוא) warming it is the cooking of it, v. הֶפְשֵׁר; a. fr.—Gitt. VIII, 4 אי זֹהו Y. ed. (Mish. אֵיזֶהוּ); a. v. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H961 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּ/בַ֨/בִּזָּ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Esther 9:10 | 3 |
| בִזָּ֥ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 14:14 | 1 |
| בִּזָּ֥ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 25:13 | 1 |
| בִּזָּ֧ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 11:24 | 1 |
| הַ/בִּזָּ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 28:14 | 1 |
| וּ/בְ/בִזָּ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 11:33 | 1 |
| וּ/בַ/בִּזָּ֛ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezra 9:7 | 1 |
| לְ/בִזָּ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Nehemiah 4:4 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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