Captivity
שְׁבִיתStrong’s H7622shevut (she-vut)
Appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shevut is the Hebrew word usually translated “captivity of”, “captivity their” and “captivity your”. It appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament.
“Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.”
Meaning
- Captivity, captives
- Defeat, reversed fortunes
How it's translated
- captivity of 19
- captivity their 5
- captivity your 3
- in captivity 1
- captivity our 1
- and captivity of 1
- captivities your 1
- captiviti your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 11
- Psalms 4
- Ezekiel 3
- Zephaniah 2
- Numbers 1
- Deuteronomy 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 30:3That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
- Job 42:10And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
- Psalms 14:7Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
- Psalms 53:6Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
- Psalms 85:1Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
- Psalms 126:4Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁבִית shevut · captivity
1) captivity, captives 2) defeat, reversed fortunes
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.