SG Heritage Dictionary

Spoil [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. That which is taken from others by violence; particularly in war, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.

2. That which is gained by strength or effort.

3. Each science and each art his spoil

4. That which is taken from another without license.

5. Gentle gales fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole their balmy spoils.

6. The act or practice of plundering; robbery; waste.

7. The man that hath not music in himself, nor is not movd with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treason, stratagems and spoils.

8. Corruption; cause of corruption.

9. Villainous company hath been the spoil of me.

10. The slough or cast skin of a serpent or other animal.

Spoil [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To practice plunder or robbery.

2. --Outlaws which, lurking in woods, used to break forth to rob and spoil

3. To decay; to lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather. Grain will spoil if gathered when wet or moist.

Spoil [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to rob; with of; as, to spoil one of his goods or possessions.

2. My sons their old unhappy sire despise, Spoild of his kingdom, and deprivd of eyes.

3. To seize by violence; to take by force; as, to spoil ones goods.

4. This mount with all his verdure spoild--

5. To corrupt; to cause to decay and perish. Heat and moisture will soon spoil vegetable and animal substances.

6. To corrupt; to vitiate; to mar.

7. Spiritual pride spoils many graces.

8. To ruin; to destroy. Our crops are sometimes spoiled by insects.

9. To render useless by injury; as, to spoil paper by wetting it.

10. To injure fatally; as, to spoil the eyes by reading.

Spoil [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.

2. Public offices and their emoluments regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage; -- commonly in the plural; as to the victor belong the spoils.

3. That which is gained by strength or effort.

4. The act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste.

5. Corruption; cause of corruption.

6. The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.

Spoil [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To practice plunder or robbery.

2. To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.

Spoil [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

2. To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.

3. To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.

4. To render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to ruin; to destroy; as, to spoil paper; to have the crops spoiled by insects; to spoil the eyes by reading.

Spoilable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being spoiled.

Spoiled [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Plundered; pillaged; corrupted; rendered useless.

Spoiled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Spoil

Spoiler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A plunderer; a pillager; a robber.

2. One that corrupts, mars or renders useless.

Spoiler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.

2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.

Spoilfive [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A certain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled.

Spoilful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Wasteful; rapacious. [Little used.]

Spoilful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wasteful; rapacious.

Spoiling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Plunder; waste.

Spoiling [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Plundering; pillaging; corrupting; rendering useless.

2. Wasting; decaying.

Spoiling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Spoil

Spoilsman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.

Spoilsmen [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Spoilsman

Spoilsmonger [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who promises or distributes public offices and their emoluments as the price of services to a party or its leaders.

Spoilt Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Spoil

King James Bible KJV Bible

Berean Standard Bible BSB Bible

242 KJV and 26 BSB verses contain “spoil” — showing the first 20. Show all 248 verses (searchable)

Genesis 34:27

The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.

Jacob’s other sons came upon the slaughter and looted the city, because their sister had been defiled.

Genesis 34:29

And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

They carried off all their possessions and women and children, and they plundered everything in their houses.

Genesis 49:27

Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”

Exodus 3:22

But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.

Every woman shall ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians.”

Exodus 12:36

And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.

And the LORD gave the people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that they granted their request. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.

Exodus 15:9

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’

Numbers 31:9

And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.

The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their herds, flocks, and goods.

Numbers 31:11

And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.

and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals.

Numbers 31:12

And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.

They brought the captives, spoils, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.

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,

and this plunder remained from the spoils the soldiers had taken: 675,000 sheep,

Numbers 31:53

(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)

Each of the soldiers had taken plunder for himself.

Deuteronomy 2:35

Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.

Deuteronomy 3:7

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

But all the livestock and plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves.

Deuteronomy 13:16

And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.

Deuteronomy 20:14

But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.

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 and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.

Joshua 7:21

When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”

Joshua 8:2

And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.

And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”

Joshua 8:27

Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.

Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.

Joshua 11:14

And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.

The Israelites took for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but they put all the people to the sword until they had completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone who breathed.