Words the Bible translates as captivity
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 9 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- aichmalōsiaαἰχμαλωσίαcaptivitynot studied yet
- sheviשְׁבִיthe taking of people prisoner in war, and what it produces: both the condition of captivity and the people held captive
- golahגּוֹלָהexile: being carried off to a foreign land, and the community of those carried off
- shevutשְׁבִיתcaptivity: the state of being carried off as a prisoner
+1 more meaning
- the restoration of fortunes: God turning a ruined situation back to well-being
- 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
- galutגָּלוּcaptivitynot studied yet
- taltelahטַלְטֵלָהcaptivitynot studied yet
- shivahשִׁיבָהcaptivitynot studied yet
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