# גָּזַל (gazal)

Israeli respelling: ga-zal. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1497. 30 Old Testament occurrences.

to pluck off; specifically to flay, strip or rob

King James renderings: catch, consume, exercise (robbery), pluck (off), rob, spoil, take away (by force, violence), tear.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/gazal-h1497

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 21:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/21/25) — And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
- [Genesis 31:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/31) — And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.
- [Leviticus 6:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/6/4) — Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hat…
- [Leviticus 19:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/13) — Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
- [Deuteronomy 28:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/29) — And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed…
- [Deuteronomy 28:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/31) — Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, an…
- [Judges 9:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/25) — And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it…
- [Judges 21:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/21/23) — And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went a…
- [2 Samuel 23:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/23/21) — And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spea…
- [1 Chronicles 11:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/11/23) — And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went…
- [Job 20:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/20/19) — Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
- [Job 24:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/2) — Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
- [Job 24:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/9) — They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
- [Job 24:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/19) — Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
- [Psalms 35:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 n…
- [Psalms 69:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 migh…
- [Proverbs 4:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/4/16) — For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
- [Proverbs 22:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/22/22) — Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
- [Proverbs 28:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/28/24) — Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
- [Isaiah 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Jeremiah 21:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/21/12) — O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, l…
- [Jeremiah 22:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/22/3) — Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do n…
- [Ezekiel 18:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/7) — And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry,…
- [Ezekiel 18:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/12) — Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath c…
- [Ezekiel 18:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/16) — Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and h…
- [Ezekiel 18:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/18/18) — As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even…
- [Ezekiel 22:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/29) — The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the strange…
- [Micah 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/2/2) — And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his h…
- [Micah 3:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/3/2) — Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
- [Malachi 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/1/13) — Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and t…