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booty

Meaning of “booty”

Goods, livestock, or other property taken or to be taken as prey or spoil.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
3 occurrences3 verses3 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Numbers 31:32

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Every verse containing “booty”

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Numbers 31:32
And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Numbers 31:32 · retained source text

And the bootie being the rest of the pray which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand, and seuenty thousand, and fiue thousand sheepe,

Jeremiah 49:32
And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the Lord.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 49:32 · retained source text

And their camels shall be a bootie, and the multitude of their cattell a spoile, and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the vtmost corners, and I will bring their calamitie from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.

1611 marginal noteHeb. cut off into corners, or that haue the corners of their haire polled.

Zephaniah 1:13
Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Zephaniah 1:13 · retained source text

Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabite them, and they shall plant Uineyards, but not drinke the wine thereof.

1611 marginal noteDeu.28.36, 39. amos 5.11.

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Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

Spoil taken from an enemy in war; plunder; pillage.

Webster 1828 facsimile, volume 1, leaf 296