sha.lal describes taking spoil from peoples or lands, often in scenes of conquest and reversal.

The attested use chiefly concerns taking goods, wealth, or spoil in acts of conquest, including retaliatory reversals against prior despoilers. One Hithpolel occurrence, Psalm 76:6, occurs in a rebuke scene where the APB says the chariot and horse “were made to sleep,” so its precise contribution is less clear.

1. Seizing spoil or despoiling others · dominant

   In Ezekiel 38:12 and Ezekiel 38:13, Qal infinitive constructs occur in stated purposes and questions about taking spoil, silver, gold, livestock, and goods. Ezekiel 39:10 and Habakkuk 2:8 place the action in reversal: those who had despoiled others are themselves despoiled; the APB renders these clauses with “plunder” and “loot.”

   Ezekiel 29:19Ezekiel 38:12Ezekiel 38:13Ezekiel 39:10Habakkuk 2:8Isaiah 10:6
2. An outcome of being made inactive · rare

   Psalm 76:6 has a Hithpolel perfect plural form in the clause following God's rebuke. The APB renders the verse, “the chariot and the horse were made to sleep”; The term's precise contribution within that clause remains uncertain.

   Psalm 76:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the conquest and reprisal passages, the APB uses “plunder,” “loot,” “seize spoil,” and “carry off plunder.” In Psalm 76:6 it instead renders the whole clause as the chariot and horse being “made to sleep”; the translation does not identify a word-for-word equivalent.