Strong's numbers
גָּזַל (H1497)
gâzal
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
גָּזַל vb. tear away, seize, rob
Qal tear away, rob
Niph. subj. sleep
From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.
30 occurrences
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Job 20:19
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
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Job 24:2
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
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Job 24:9
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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Job 24:19
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
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Psalms 35:10
All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
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Psalms 69:4
They 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.
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Proverbs 4:16
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
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Proverbs 22:22
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
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Proverbs 28:24
Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
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Isaiah 10:2
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!