Words the Bible translates as captives
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- sheviשְׁבִיthe taking of people prisoner in war, and what it produces: both the condition of captivity and the people held captive
- galutגָּלוּתexile: the forced removal of a people from their homeland, and by extension the deportees themselves
- shivyahשִׁבְיָהa captured population seen as one body: the prisoners an army carries off, and the captivity they are carried into
- malqo'aḥמַלְקוֹחַcaptured living plunder: the people and animals a victor takes alive and keeps
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- the jaws: the inside of the mouth, named as the part that takes food in
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