ba.zaz denotes taking away goods, livestock, wealth, or spoil, often in the aftermath of attack or conquest.

The verb consistently describes the seizure or carrying away of goods, livestock, wealth, and other spoil by victors or attackers. Its active forms portray people taking what belongs to a city or defeated group, while passive forms describe cities, treasures, or people as subjected to that taking.

1. Seizing goods or spoil from others · dominant

   Qal forms portray an attacking or victorious group taking possessions: in Deuteronomy 20:14 the APB renders the command concerning a captured city, “you may plunder for yourselves,” and in Genesis 34:29 it renders the taking of wealth and household goods. The action can concern city wealth and merchandise in Ezekiel 26:12, livestock and spoil in Joshua 8:27, or a people’s resources after defeat in 2 Kings 7:16. Passive forms present the corresponding result: in Isaiah 42:22 the APB renders a people as “plundered and plundered,” and in Jeremiah 50:37 treasures “will be plundered.”

   Deuteronomy 20:14Genesis 34:29Ezekiel 26:12Joshua 8:27Isaiah 42:22Jeremiah 50:37

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the action with “plunder,” while also using “loot,” “carry off,” and “take” in clauses about spoil, wealth, livestock, and goods. These English expressions show the verse-level presentation rather than fixed equivalents for each form.