בַּג
bag (H0957)
spoil
AI Word Study
The word בַּג (bag) in the Hebrew Bible carries a meaning that may surprise, given its English equivalent. It actually translates to "spoil" or plunder, referring to the spoils of war, not the material containers we typically think of with this word. This meaning is evident in its short definition and association with the semantic domain of Warfare & Conflict. In its 25 occurrences throughout the Bible, "bag" is rarely used as a common item used for carrying things. Instead, it typically denotes the goods or possessions captured or confiscated in the process of war or conflict. This range of usage highlights the word's connection to violence, victory, and plunder, illustrating the tumultuous aspects of war in the ancient biblical world. The significance of "bag" lies in its representation of the complex and often brutal nature of warfare in the biblical era. The word underscores the idea that victory often came at a great cost to the defeated, with the spoils of war being a tangible manifestation of this outcome. This linguistic detail provides insight into the harsh realities of conflict and the consequences of war in ancient times.
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Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”
But I will bring your little ones that you said should be captured or killed in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.
Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.
I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. They will become a prey and a plunder to all their enemies,
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Your rigging is untied. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn’t spread the sail. Then the prey of a great plunder was divided. The lame took the prey.
But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’
Is Israel a slave? Is he born into slavery? Why has he become a captive?
I will give your substance and your treasures for a plunder without price, and that for all your sins, even in all your borders.
My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a plunder, and your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders.
Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured. All your adversaries, everyone of them, will go into captivity. Those who plunder you will be plunder. I will make all who prey on you become prey.
Their camels will be a booty, and the multitude of their livestock a plunder. I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners of their beards cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them,” says Yahweh.
I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a plunder; and they will profane it.
“For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.
therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, and will deliver you for a plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries. I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”
She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh. ‘She will become plunder for the nations.
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. He will carry off her multitude, take her plunder, and take her prey. That will be the wages for his army.
“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd. My shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep.”
therefore I will save my flock, and they will no more be a prey. I will judge between sheep and sheep.
They will no more be a prey to the nations, neither will the animals of the earth devour them; but they will dwell securely, and no one will make them afraid.
therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;
therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.” ’
to take the plunder and to take prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten livestock and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.’
Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, will ask you, ‘Have you come to take the plunder? Have you assembled your company to take the prey, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’ ” ’