Lexical Definition

‎שָׁלָל‎ shâlâl (shaw-lawl') spoil ^H:N-M
from ‎שָׁלַל‎

prey, spoil.

• booty

1) prey, plunder, spoil, booty
1a) prey
1b) booty, spoil, plunder (of war)
1c) plunder (private)
1d) gain (meaning dubious)

See Greek: ἀπώλεια · ἁρπαγή · σκῦλον

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎שָׁלָל‎₇₅ noun masculine^{1Sam 30:16} prey, spoil, plunder, booty; — absolute ‎׳‎‎שׁ‎ Gen 49:27 +; construct ‎שְׁלַל‎ Judg 5:30 +, suffix ‎שְׁלָלֵךְ‎ Zech 14:1, ‎שְׁלַלְכֶם‎ Isa 33:4, etc.; —

1. prey, of Benjamin as wolf Gen 49:27 (poem in J; with ‎חִלֵּק‎).

2. booty, spoil of war, of all kinds (often || ‎בַּז‎): including garments, gold and silver Josh 7:21 (J), ornaments Judg 8:24; Judg 8:25, fabrics and women Judg 5:30 a, b, flocks and herds 1Sam 30:20; Jer 49:32; 2Chr 15:11, + persons Deut 20:14 (twice in verse), garments, food and drink 2Chr 28:15, etc. (58 t.; among these) ‎שְׁלַל הֶעָרִים‎ Deut 2:25; 2Sam 12:30; 1Chr 20:2 and (+ cattle in addition) Deut 3:7; Josh 8:27; Josh 11:14 (both R^D), compare (also of city) Isa 8:4; Deut 13:17* (twice in verse); Zech 14:1 and (+ cattle) Josh 8:2 (R^D), but including person and cattle Deut 20:14, compare vDeut 20:14 figurative of entire nation Jer 50:10; Ezek 7:21; Zech 2:13* ‎׳‎‎שׁ‎ in symbolic proper name ‎׳‎‎מַהֵר שָׁלָל וגו‎ Isa 8:1; Isa 8:3, see above p.555:a; ‎׳‎‎שׁ‎ in metaphor of future majesty of ‎׳‎‎עֶבֶד י‎ Isa 53:12 ‎׳‎‎וְהֳיְתָהאלּוֺ נַפְשׁוֺ לְשׁ‎ i.e. life shall be spared, Jer 21:9; Jer 38:2; Jer 39:18, compare Jer 45:5.

3. private plunder Isa 10:2 (‎אַלְמָנוֺת שְׁלָלָם‎), Prov 1:13 and (perhaps in current saying) Prov 16:19.

4. = gain Prov 31:11. — ‎׳‎‎לְצַוִּארֵי שׁ‎ Judg 5:30 c is clearly wrong; meaning dubious (see especially GFM); plausible conjectures are ‎׳‎‎לְצַוָּארַי שׁ‎ for my neck as spoil, Reuss^Br and others, and ‎לְצַוְּארֵי שֵׁגָל‎ for the neck of the queen Ew Be Kit and others (but ‎שֵׁגָל‎ elsewhere late); Now strike out ‎שָׁלָל‎ and reads ‎לְצַוָּארָיו‎.

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