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H0897 H0897
Prep-l | Adv  |  1× in 1 sense
plunder, spoil, booty (as food/prey)
A variant or dialectal form related to the common word for plunder or spoil, appearing with a prepositional prefix in Ezekiel. The context involves God giving nations as plunder, possibly specifically as food or sustenance. There is textual uncertainty (ketiv/qere variation), but the semantic field clearly involves spoil or booty taken in warfare. The term overlaps with the more common bazaz and shalal, both denoting war plunder.

Senses
1. sense 1 Refers to plunder or spoil in Ezekiel 25:7, where God threatens to give the Ammonites as spoil to the nations. The textual variant (ketiv vs. qere) creates uncertainty, but the context of military conquest and plundering is clear. The French "nourriture" (food) may reflect an interpretation that the spoil serves as sustenance for the conquerors, a common motif in ancient warfare.
ECONOMICS_PROPERTY Possess, Transfer, Exchange Plunder and Spoil
AR["[نَهْبًا]"]·ben["লুট-"]·DE["[לבג‪‬]"]·EN["[as-plunder]"]·FR["nourriture"]·heb["ל-בז"]·ID["[qere]"]·IT["[לבג‪‬]"]·jav["[kangge-jarahan]"]·KO["[케티브]"]·PT["por-despojo"]·RU["и-отдам"]·ES["[para-despojo]"]·SW["[kama-nyara]"]·TR["[yağmaya]"]·urd["[لوٹ-مار]"]

Related Senses
H5414 1. give, bestow (1855×)H3947 1. take, seize, grasp (Qal) (940×)G2192 1. possess / have (680×)G1325 1. give, bestow (336×)H5159 1. inherited land or property (170×)G2983 1. receive, obtain (134×)H3423 1. Qal: take possession of land (130×)G2983 2. take, take up (113×)G2398 1. one's own, belonging to oneself (91×)G3860 1. hand over, deliver to custody (78×)H7998 1. spoil, plunder, booty (74×)G1325 2. be given, be granted (70×)H5414 2. put, place, set (68×)H7999a 1. pay, repay, recompense (63×)H7069 1. Buy, purchase (59×)H1892 1. vanity, futility, absurdity (58×)H5159 2. heritage as covenant portion (52×)H6299 1. redeem or ransom (Qal active) (49×)H4376 1. Sell (Qal active) (47×)H1350a 1. Redeem, buy back (46×)

BDB / Lexicon Reference
בַּז n.[m.] spoiling, robbery; spoil, booty—בּ׳ abs. Nu 14:3 +; so also Ez 25:7 Qr (Kt בג meaningless); בַּ֑ז Je 2:14 +; but הַבָּ֔ז Nu 31:32 v. d. H.; sf. בִּזָּהּ Ez 29:19;— 1. spoiling, robbery, לְב׳ i.e. to be plundered, despoiled Ez 7:21 (of temple ‖ שָׁלָל) 23:46. 2. spoil, booty, plunder Is 10:6; 33:23 Ez 29:19; 38:12, 13 (all acc. cogn. ‖ שָׁלָל); cf. Nu 31:32 Je 15:13; 17:3; in phr.