Strong’s H1499 · Hebrew

גֵּזֶל
gêzel
ghe'-zel

Definition

plunder, i.e. violence

Etymology

from H1497 (גָּזַל);

Word family

How the KJV renders it

  • violence
  • violent perverting.. gozal. See H1469 (גּוֹזָל)

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.