H1497 גָּזַל
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 30 KJV occurrences
גָּזַל
gâzal · gaw-zal'
Definition
to pluck off; specifically to flay, strip or rob
KJV Renderings
catch, consume, exercise (robbery), pluck (off), rob, spoil, take away (by force, violence), tear.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 30)
- Genesis 21:25And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
- Leviticus 19:13¶ Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
- Judges 21:23And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
- Job 24:2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
- Psalms 69:4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
- Proverbs 28:24Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
- Ezekiel 18:7And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
- Ezekiel 22:29The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.