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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Genesis
22 verses
Numbers
88 verses
Deuteronomy
33 verses
Joshua
33 verses
Judges
53 verses
2 Kings
11 verses
Nehemiah
11 verses
Esther
44 verses
Job
55 verses
Psalms
44 verses
Proverbs
11 verses
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109 verses
Jeremiah
65 verses
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1414 verses
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11 verses
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11 verses
Nahum
33 verses
Zephaniah
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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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 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?
H957
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.
H2964
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.
H4455
And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.
H4455
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.
H4455
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:
H4455
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:
H957
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,
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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