Captivity
גָּלוּStrong’s H1547galut (ga-lut)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Galut is the Aramaic word usually translated “exile the”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.”
Meaning
- Exile
How it's translated
- exile the 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
- Ezra 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 5:13In contextThen was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?
- Daniel 6:13In contextThen answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
- Ezra 6:16And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy,
Aramaic dictionary
גָּלוּ galut · captivity
exile Aramaic of ga.lut (גָּלוּת "captivity" H1546)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.