Strong's #1497: gazal (pronounced gaw-zal')

a primitive root; to pluck off; specifically to flay, strip or rob:--catch, consume, exercise (robbery), pluck (off), rob, spoil, take away (by force, violence), tear.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gâzal

1) to tear away, seize, plunder, tear off, pull off, rob, take away by force

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to tear away, rob

1a2) to seize, plunder (with acc cognate)

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be robbed

1b2) to be taken away

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 30 times:

 

Genesis 21:25: "of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away."
Genesis 31:31: "for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from"
Leviticus 6:4: "that which he took violently away, or the thing which"
Leviticus 19:13: "thy neighbor, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night"
Deuteronomy 28:29: "and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save"
Deuteronomy 28:31: "eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not"
Judges 9:25: "for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all came along"
Judges 21:23: "of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance,"
2 Samuel 23:21: "in his hand; but he went down him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand,"
1 Chronicles 11:23: "beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand,"
Job 20:19: "he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away a house which he built not;"
Job 24:2: "Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed"
Job 24:9: " They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor."
Job 24:19: "Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned."
Psalms 35:10: "from him that is too strong for and the needy from him that spoileth from him that spoileth"
Psalms 69:4: "are mighty: then that which I took not away. I took not away."
Proverbs 4:16: "except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall."
Proverbs 22:22: " Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress"
Proverbs 28:24: " Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion"
Isaiah 10:2: "To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people,"
Jeremiah 21:12: "judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled of the oppressor, lest"
Jeremiah 22:3: "ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor:"
Ezekiel 18:7: "but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given"
Ezekiel 18:12: "Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge,"
Ezekiel 18:16: "withheld the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given to the hungry,"
Ezekiel 18:18: "As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did"
Ezekiel 22:29: "of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy:"
Micah 2:2: "And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house"
Micah 3:2: "the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh"
Malachi 1:13: "it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, thus ye brought"