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Strong's #897 - בַּג
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- spoil, booty
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1030) zb (בז BZ) AC: Spoil CO: Spoils AB: Despise: The pictograph b represents a house. The z represents an agricultural implement or a weapon. Combined these pictographs have the meaning of “a house cut” or “attacked”. An enemy would plunder a household for goods to supply themselves as a bird of prey attacks its prey. (eng: buzzard)
A) zb (בז BZ) AC: ? CO: Spoils AB: ?: The removal of what is of value as when an attacking army takes from the defeated all that is of value or the loss of value of a food due to spoilage.
Nm) zb (בז BZ) - Spoils: [df: gb] KJV (26): prey, spoil, booty - Strongs: H897 (בַּג), H957 (בַּז)
Nf1 ) ezb (בזה BZH) - Spoils: KJV (10): spoil, prey - Strongs: H961 (בִּזָּה)
B) zzb (בזז BZZ) AC: ? CO: Spoil AB: ?
V) zzb (בזז BZZ) - Spoil: KJV (43): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Pual) spoil, take away, prey, rob, take, caught, gathering. robber - Strongs: H962 (בָּזַז)
E) azb (בזא BZA) AC: Divide CO: ? AB: ?: A division of what is plundered.
V) azb (בזא BZA) - Divide: A division made by cutting into pieces. KJV (2): (vf: Paal) spoiled - Strongs: H958 (בָּזָא)
H) ezb (בזה BZH) AC: Despise CO: ? AB: ?: To treat something as spoiled, no longer of value.
V) ezb (בזה BZH) - Despise: KJV (43): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil) despise, disdain, scorn, contemned - Strongs: H959 (בָּזָה)
cm) efzb (בזוה BZWH) - Despised: Something that is considered vile. KJV (1): despise - Strongs: H960 (בָּזֹה)
fjm) nfizb (בזיונ BZYWN) - Despised: Something that is treated as spoiled, no longer of value. KJV (1): contempt - Strongs: H963 (בִּזָּיוֹן)
J) zfb (בוז BWZ) AC: Despise CO: ? AB: ?: To treat something as spoiled, no longer of value.
V) zfb (בוז BWZ) - Despise: KJV (12): (vf: Paal) despise, contemned - Strongs: H936 (בּוּז)
Nm) zfb (בוז BWZ) - Despised: KJV (11): contempt, despise, shame - Strongs: H937 (בּוּז)
Nf1) ezfb (בוזה BWZH) - Despised: KJV (1): despised - Strongs: H939 (בּוּזָה)
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Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
בַּג a Persic word denoting food (باه, written in Arab. باج; comp. φάγειν, and Phryg. βέκος, bread, Herod. ii. 2), found in the compound word פַּתְבַּג (which see); and also Ezekiel 25:7, כתיב, נְתַתִּיךָ לְבַג לְגּוֹיִם “I will give thee as food for the nations.” The textual reading however appears to be not more genuine than the reading in Ezekiel 47:13, where גֶּה is written for זֶה (this); and from the comparison of similar phrases, Jeremiah 15:13, 17:3, especially Ezekiel 26:5, 34:28, I have no doubt but that with the ancient versions we should read לְבַז “for a spoil.” [So the ק׳.]