Plunder נָצַל

Inspiring Words Knight Vision · Sep 15, 2025 · 3m

We are in chapter twelve of Exodus with our word for today. נָצַל pull out, strip, plunder, deliver, save, be saved, snatch away. It is used 213 times in the Old Testament. We have already looked at this word in its usual sense of deliver or save. Today in our chapter we find it used in the sense of plunder to steal goods and take as spoils, often as part of warfare. Here is a good example. 2 Chronicles 20:25 So Jehoshaphat and his men went to carry off their וַיְנַצְּל֥וּ plunder, and they found among them a great amount of equipment and clothing and also articles of value—more than they…