Buz Buz

Isaiah 10:6 warns that the Assyrians are coming to “spoil spoil, and to prey prey.” Both words are doubled, and the poetic equality of the phrase is enhanced by the fact that the Hebrew word for “prey” is baz bazaz in its verb form, baz in its noun form. In Isaiah 10:6 itself, the phrase reads leboz baz .

Assyria is coming to baz , not unlike a plague of flies and bees (7:18).

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