[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%99%D7%94/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ש](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/shin/)‎ / שִׁבְיָה‎

# שִׁבְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7633

**captivity** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

captivity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7633/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁבְיָה: n.f. captivity, captives [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7633/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. captivity, captives (coll.), cf. שְׁבִי;—always abs. שׁ׳;— state of captivity, Je 48:46 (of בָּנוֹת, ‖ שְׁבִי of בָּנִים); אֶרֶץ שׁ׳ Ne 3:36. body of captives, Dt 21:11; 32:42 (‖ חָלָל), 2 Ch 28:13, 14, 15; object of שָׁבָה, v 5 (שׁ׳ גדולה), הָשִׁיבוּ הַשּׁ׳ אֲשֶׁר שְׁבִיתֶם v 11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: captive\[s\] (7); captivity (1); of captivity (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 21:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.21.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.21.11/#tree)

וְרָאִיתָ֙ בַּשִּׁבְיָ֔ה אֵ֖שֶׁת יְפַת־תֹּ֑אַר וְחָשַׁקְתָּ֣ בָ֔הּ וְלָקַחְתָּ֥ לְךָ֖ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.see among the captive\[s\] a.woman beautiful of.form and you.will.love (in) her and you.will.take.\[her\] for yourself to a.wife

*JPS 1917:* and seest among the captives a woman of goodly form, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife;

[Deuteronomy 32:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.42/#tree)

אַשְׁכִּ֤יר חִצַּי֙ מִדָּ֔ם וְחַרְבִּ֖י תֹּאכַ֣ל בָּשָׂ֑ר מִדַּ֤ם חָלָל֙ וְשִׁבְיָ֔ה מֵרֹ֖אשׁ פַּרְע֥וֹת אוֹיֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* I.will.make.drunk arrows my from blood and sword my it.will.devour flesh from.\[the\] blood of.\[the\].slain and.\[the\] captive\[s\] from.\[the\] chief of.\[the\].leaders of.\[the\].enemy

*JPS 1917:* I will make Mine arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh; with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7633.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7633/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).