Genesis 49:9
Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
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Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
Read in context →Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
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baz · baz
plunder
Strong's KJV usage: booty, prey, spoil(-ed).
Strong's first: Numbers 14:3Strong's last: Ezekiel 38:13
Open full H957 profile →ṭereph · teh'-ref
something torn, i.e. a fragment, e.g. a fresh leaf, prey, food
Strong's KJV usage: leaf, meat, prey, spoil.
Strong's first: Genesis 49:9Strong's last: Nahum 3:1
Open full H2964 profile →shâlâl · shaw-lawl'
booty
Strong's KJV usage: prey, spoil.
Strong's first: Judges 5:30Strong's last: Jeremiah 45:5
Open full H7998 profile →bâzaz · baw-zaz'
to plunder
Strong's KJV usage: catch, gather, (take) for a prey, rob(-ber), spoil, take (away, spoil), × utterly.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 2:35Strong's last: Ezekiel 26:12
Open full H962 profile →malqôwach · mal-ko'-akh
transitively (in dual) the jaws (as taking food); intransitively, spoil [and captives] (as taken)
Strong's KJV usage: booty, jaws, prey.
Strong's first: Numbers 31:11Strong's last: Isaiah 49:25
Open full H4455 profile →bizzâh · biz-zaw'
booty
Strong's KJV usage: prey, spoil.
Strong's first: Nehemiah 4:4Strong's last: Daniel 11:24
Open full H961 profile →ʻad · ad
booty
Strong's KJV usage: prey.
Strong's first: Genesis 49:27Strong's last: Zephaniah 3:8
Open full H5706 profile →ʼôkel · o'-kel
food
Strong's KJV usage: eating, food, meal(-time), meat, prey, victuals.
Strong's first: Job 9:26Strong's last: Job 39:29
Open full H400 profile →chetheph · kheh'-thef
properly, rapine; figuratively, robbery
Strong's KJV usage: prey.
Strong's first: Proverbs 23:28Strong's last: Proverbs 23:28
Open full H2863 profile →ṭâraph · taw-raf'
to pluck off or pull to pieces; causatively to supply with food (as in morsels)
Strong's KJV usage: catch, × without doubt, feed, ravin, rend in pieces, × surely, tear (in pieces).
Strong's first: Psalms 17:12Strong's last: Psalms 17:12
Open full H2963 profile →shâlal · shaw-lal'
to drop or strip; by implication, to plunder
Strong's KJV usage: let fall, make self a prey, × of purpose, (make a, (take)) spoil.
Strong's first: Isaiah 59:15Strong's last: Isaiah 59:15
Open full H7997 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.
And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:
And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:
And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.
Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.
And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.
Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:
And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
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PREY, noun [Latin proeda.]
1. Spoil; booty; plunder; goods taken by force from an enemy in war.
And they brought the captives and the prey and the spoil to Moses and Eleazar the priest. Numbers 31:11.
In this passage, the captives are distinguished from prey But sometimes persons are included.
They [Judah] shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies. 2 Kings 21:14.
2. That which is seized or may be seized by violence to be devoured; ravine. The eagle and the hawk dart upon their prey
She sees herself the monster's prey
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey Job 4:11.
3. Ravage; depredation.
Hog in sloth, fox in stealth, lion in prey
Animal or beast of prey is a carnivorous animal; one that feeds on the flesh of other animals. The word is applied to the larger animals, as lions, tigers, hawks, vultures, etc. rather than to insects; yet an insect feeding on other insects may be called an animal of prey
PREY, verb intransitive To prey on or upon, is to rob; to plunder; to pillage.
1. To feed by violence, or to seize and devour. The wolf preys on sheep; the hawk preys on chickens.
2. To corrode; to waste gradually; to cause to pine away. Grief preys on the body and spirits; envy and jealousy prey on the health.
Language is too faint to show
His rage of love; it preys upon his life;
He pines, he sickens, he despairs, he dies.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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