The Meaning of Deuteronomy 3:7 Explained

Deuteronomy 3:7

KJV: But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.

YLT: and all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we have spoiled for ourselves.

Darby: But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves.

ASV: But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

But all the cattle,  and the spoil  of the cities,  we took for a prey  to ourselves. 

What does Deuteronomy 3:7 Mean?

Context Summary

Deuteronomy 3:1-22 - The Inheritance Of Reuben, Gad And Manasseh
Sihon's defeat, described in the previous chapter, compelled his ally Og to take the field and oppose the further advance of Israel. "He came out" against them. Perhaps also Joshua 24:12 affords a clue. Swarms of hornets harassed him and his people, and drove them out of their stone houses and fortifications; they preferred meeting the chosen race in the open to the scourge of these formidable creatures. When God says, "Fear not," He fights on our side.
Recent discoveries confirm these references to the many stone cities of Bashan, mentioned in Deuteronomy 3:4. The country is covered with ruins. Porter says that 500 ruined places attest the might of the Amorites. The royal bedstead is thought to mean coffin or bier. Its length of 13 1/2 feet would infer a stature of 11 or 12 feet.
These victories opened fertile and beautiful pasture-lands, including Hermon and Gilead. "The Lord delivered"¦ and we took." [source]

Chapter Summary: Deuteronomy 3

1  The conquest of Og, king of Bashan
11  This size of his bed
12  The distribution of his lands to the two tribes and half
23  Moses prays to enter into the land
26  He is permitted to see it

What do the individual words in Deuteronomy 3:7 mean?

but all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves
וְכָל־ הַבְּהֵמָ֛ה וּשְׁלַ֥ל הֶעָרִ֖ים בַּזּ֥וֹנוּ לָֽנוּ

וְכָל־  but  all 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: כֹּל  
Sense: all, the whole.
הַבְּהֵמָ֛ה  the  livestock 
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: בְּהֵמָה  
Sense: beast, cattle, animal.
וּשְׁלַ֥ל  and  the  spoil 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: שָׁלָל  
Sense: prey, plunder, spoil, booty.
הֶעָרִ֖ים  of  the  cities 
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine plural
Root: עִיר 
Sense: excitement, anguish.
בַּזּ֥וֹנוּ  we  took  as  booty 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, first person common plural
Root: בָּזַז  
Sense: to spoil, plunder, prey upon, seize.
לָֽנוּ  for  ourselves 
Parse: Preposition, first person common plural

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