Captivity
שִׁיבָהStrong’s H7870shivah (shi-vah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shivah is the Hebrew word usually translated “restoration of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.”
Meaning
- Restoration
How it's translated
- restoration of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שִׁיבָה shivah · captivity
restoration
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.