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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33 verses
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53 verses
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11 verses
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44 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
Open full H2964 profile →שָׁלָל
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
Open full H5706 profile →אֹכֶל
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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H961
For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
H961
But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,
H2964
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
H400
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
H2964
Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
H2964
Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
H400
From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
H2963
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
H2964
Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.
H2964
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
H2964
Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
H2863
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
H2964
Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
H7998
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
H957
I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
H2964
For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
H5706
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
H957
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
H957
But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
H4455
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
H4455
But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
H7997
Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
H7998
He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
H962
Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
H957
Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
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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