STRONGS NUMBER H7998

H7998. shalal

שָׁלָל‎₇₅ noun masculine^{1 Samuel 30:16} prey, spoil, plunder, booty; — absolute ׳שׁ‎ Genesis 49:27 +; construct שְׁלַל‎ Judges 5:30 +, suffix שְׁלָלֵךְ‎ Zechariah 14:1, שְׁלַלְכֶם‎ Isaiah 33:4, etc.; —

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

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

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

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