H1215: בֶּצַע

Extended definition

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H1215 is translated

• unjust gain ×8
• is the profit ×3
• your ×3
• of unjust gain ×2
• his ×2
• their ×2
• profit of ×1
• profit ×1
• unjust gain of ×1

Bible verses with H1215 (betsaʻ)

Betsaʻ appears in 23 verses.

• Genesis 37:26

  And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

• Exodus 18:21

  Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

• Judges 5:19

  The kings came and fought, then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.

• 1 Samuel 8:3

  And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

• Job 22:3

  Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

• Psalms 30:9

  What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

• Psalms 119:36

  Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

• Proverbs 1:19

  So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

• Proverbs 15:27

  He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

• Proverbs 28:16

  The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

• Isaiah 33:15

  He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

• Isaiah 56:11

  Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

• Isaiah 57:17

  For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

• Jeremiah 6:13

  For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

• Jeremiah 8:10

  Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

• Jeremiah 22:17

  But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

• Jeremiah 51:13

  O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.

• Ezekiel 22:13

  Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.

• Ezekiel 22:27

  Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

• Ezekiel 33:31

  And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

• Micah 4:13

  Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.

• Habakkuk 2:9

  Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

• Malachi 3:14

  Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?