Original Language Studio
Ezekiel 38:12
“To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.” (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
- לִ — preposition
- שְׁלֹ֥ל — verb Qal, infinitive construct
- 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.