Prey
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prā (בּז, baz, טרף, ṭereph, שלל, shālāl):
“Prey” is frequent in the Old Testament, chiefly as the translation of baz, “spoil,” “plunder” (Numbers 14:3, Numbers 14:11; Deuteronomy 1:39; Isaiah 10:6, etc.); of ṭereph, “prey of wild beasts,” “torn thing” (Genesis 49:9; Numbers 23:24; Job 4:11, etc.); of malḳōah, “a taking” (Numbers 31:11, etc.; Isaiah 49:24, Isaiah 49:25); of shālāl, “spoil” or “booty” (Judges 5:30 twice; Judges 8:24, Judges 8:25; Isaiah 10:2, etc.). Mahēr-shālāl-ḥash-baz (the Revised Version margin “The spoil speedeth, the prey hasteth”) was the symbolical name given to a son of Isaiah (Isaiah 8:1, Isaiah 8:3). “Prey” does not occur in the New Testament, but is found in the Apoc: 1 Esdras 8:77, “for our sins ... were given up ... for a prey” (pronomḗ); Judith 9:4; Judith 16:5; 1 Maccabees 7:47; Ecclesiasticus 27:10 (thḗra); Judith 5:24 (katábrōma).
In the Revised Version (British and American) shālāl is generally translated “spoil” (Judges 5:30; Judges 8:24, Judges 8:25; Isaiah 10:2, etc.), while, conversely, “prey” (noun and verb) is occasionally substituted for “spoil,” “booty” (Numbers 31:32, ere).
