Definition

robbery, or (concretely) plunder

Etymology

from H1497 (גָּזַל);

Word family

• גָּזַל gâzal

How the KJV renders it

• robbery
• thing taken away by violence

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.