Spoil, Spoiling

used in the plural, denotes "arms stripped from a foe;" "spoils" in Luke 11:22 .

primarily "the top of a heap" (akros, "highest, top," and this, "a heap"), hence "firstfruit offerings," and in war "the choicest spoils," Hebrews 7:4 .

"pillage," is rendered "spoiling" in Hebrews 10:34 . See EXTORT , B, No. 1.

"to plunder," is found in Matthew 12:29,2 nd part (the 1st has harpazo, in the best texts), lit., "(then) he will completely (dia, intensive) spoil (his house);" Mark 3:27 (twice).

"to seize, snatch away," is rendered "spoil" in Matthew 12:29 (see No. 1). See CATCH , No. 1.

"to carry off as spoil, lead captive" (sule, "spoil," ago, "to lead"), is rendered "maketh spoil of" in Colossians 2:8 , RV (AV, "spoil"), rather "carry you off as spoil." The false teacher, through his "philosophy and vain deceit," would carry them off as so much booty.

in the Middle Voice is translated "having spoiled" in Colossians 2:15 , AV, RV, "having put off from Himself (the principalities and the powers)." These are regarded by some as the unsinning angels, because they are mentioned twice before in the Epistle (Colossians 1:6; 2:10 ). It is also argued that the verb apekduo, rendered "having put off from Himself," in Colossians 2:15 , is used in a somewhat different sense in Colossians 3:9 . Such representations do not form a sufficiently cogent reason for regarding the principalities and the powers here mentioned as those of light, rather than those of darkness.