Strong's #1215: betsa` (pronounced beh'-tsah)

from 1214; plunder; by extension, gain (usually unjust):--covetousness, (dishonest) gain, lucre, profit.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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betsa‛

1) profit, unjust gain, gain (profit) acquired by violence

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H1214

Usage:

This word is used 22 times:

 

Genesis 37:26: "unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother,"
Exodus 18:21: "God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers"
1 Samuel 8:3: "in his ways, but turned aside lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment."
Job 22:3: "that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?"
Psalms 30:9: "What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to Shall the dust praise"
Psalms 119:36: "thy testimonies, and not covetousness."
Proverbs 1:19: "are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; the life of the owners"
Proverbs 15:27: "He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth shall live."
Proverbs 28:16: "is also a great oppressor: covetousness shall prolong his days."
Isaiah 33:15: "and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding"
Isaiah 56:11: "understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter."
Isaiah 57:17: "For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid and he went on frowardly"
Jeremiah 6:13: "of them even unto the greatest of them every one covetousness; and from the prophet even unto"
Jeremiah 8:10: "from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, is given to covetousness, from the prophet"
Jeremiah 22:17: "and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed"
Jeremiah 51:13: "thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness."
Ezekiel 22:13: "therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain thou hast made, and at thy blood"
Ezekiel 22:27: "souls, to get dishonest gain."
Ezekiel 33:31: "but their heart goeth after their covetousness."
Micah 4:13: "many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole"
Habakkuk 2:9: "Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, his nest on high,"
Malachi 3:14: "to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that"