Captivity
גּוֹלָהStrong’s H1473golah (go-lah)
Appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Golah is the Hebrew word usually translated “exile” and “from the exile”. It appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament.
“Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;”
Meaning
- Exiles, exile, captivityexiles (coll) · exile, captivity (abstract)
How it's translated
- the exile 25
- exile 8
- in exile 6
- from the exile 1
- in the exile 1
- and in exile 1
- to exile 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 12
- Jeremiah 10
- Ezekiel 10
- 2 Kings 3
- Zechariah 2
- 1 Chronicles 1
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 14:2In contextFor I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
- 2 Kings 24:14And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
- 2 Kings 24:15And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
- 2 Kings 24:16And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
- 1 Chronicles 5:22For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.
- Ezra 1:11All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.
Hebrew dictionary
גּוֹלָה golah · captivity
1) exiles, exile, captivity 1a) exiles (coll) 1b) exile, captivity (abstract)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “captivity” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CAPTIVITY, noun
- The state of being a prisoner, or of being in the power of an enemy by force or the fate of war.
- Subjection to love.
- Subjection; a state of being under control.“Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” 2 Corinthians 10:5
- Subjection; servitude; slavery.“But I see another law in my members--bringing me into captivity to the law of sin” Romans 7:23
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.