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Ezekiel 26:12
“And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H7997 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to drop or strip; by implication, to plunder
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- let fall, make self a prey, [idiom] of purpose, (make a, (take)) spoil.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- שָׁלְל֣וּ — verb Qal, sequential perfect, 3rd person, common, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 16 times in the Hebrew Bible.Ruth 2:16Ruth 2:16Psalms 76:6Isaiah 10:6Isaiah 59:15
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שָׁלַל here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.