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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Prey
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Zephaniah 3:8
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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Numbers
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Deuteronomy
33 verses
Joshua
33 verses
Judges
53 verses
2 Kings
11 verses
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11 verses
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44 verses
Job
55 verses
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44 verses
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11 verses
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109 verses
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65 verses
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33 verses
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בַּז
baz · baz
18 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
plunder
Strong's KJV usage: booty, prey, spoil(-ed).
Strong's first: Numbers 14:3Strong's last: Ezekiel 38:13
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ṭereph · teh'-ref
18 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
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
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shâlâl · shaw-lawl'
10 times translated as this KJV form73 total Strong's occurrences
booty
Strong's KJV usage: prey, spoil.
Strong's first: Judges 5:30Strong's last: Jeremiah 45:5
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bâzaz · baw-zaz'
9 times translated as this KJV form43 total Strong's occurrences
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
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malqôwach · mal-ko'-akh
6 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
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
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bizzâh · biz-zaw'
4 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
booty
Strong's KJV usage: prey, spoil.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Nehemiah 4:4Strong's last: Daniel 11:24
Open full H961 profile →עַד
ʻad · ad
3 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
booty
Strong's KJV usage: prey.
Strong's first: Genesis 49:27Strong's last: Zephaniah 3:8
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ʼôkel · o'-kel
2 times translated as this KJV form43 total Strong's occurrences
food
Strong's KJV usage: eating, food, meal(-time), meat, prey, victuals.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 9:26Strong's last: Job 39:29
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chetheph · kheh'-thef
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
properly, rapine; figuratively, robbery
Strong's KJV usage: prey.
Strong's first: Proverbs 23:28Strong's last: Proverbs 23:28
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ṭâraph · taw-raf'
1 times translated as this KJV form24 total Strong's occurrences
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
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shâlal · shaw-lal'
1 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
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
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H957
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
H2964
And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
H2964
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
H2964
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof.
H2964
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
H962
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.
H957
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
H957
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
H957
Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
H957
And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.
H957
Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
H957
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
H957
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.
H957
Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
English meaning and historical usage.
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prey
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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