Captive
Easton's Bible Dictionary
One taken in war. Captives were often treated with great cruelty and indignity (1 Kgs 20:32; Josh 10:24; Judg 1:7; 2 Sam 4:12; Judg 8:7; 2 Sam 12:31; 1 Chr 20:3). When a city was taken by assault, all the men were slain, and the women and children carried away captive and sold as slaves (Isa 20; 47:3; 2 Chr 28:9-15; Ps 44:12; Joel 3:3), and exposed to the most cruel treatment (Nah 3:10; Zech 14:2; Esth 3:13; 2 Kgs 8:12; Isa 13:16, 18). Captives were sometimes carried away into foreign countries, as was the case with the Jews (Jer 20:5; 39:9, 10; 40:7).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
kap'-tiv (shebhi, galah; aichmalotos and its derivatives): The frequent references in the Old Testament to captives as men forcibly deported (from the Hebrew root shabhah) or inhabiting a land foreign to them (from Hebrew galah) reflect the universal practice of the ancient world. The treatment of captives was sometimes barbarous (2 Sam 8:2) but not always so (2 Kgs 6:21; 2 Kgs 6:22).
See further under Assir and War.
Figurative: Except in Job 42:10 the figurative use of the idea is confined to the New Testament, where reference is made to the triumphal reign of the Lord Jesus (Luke 4:18; Eph 4:8), or, on the other hand, to the power of the devil (2 Tim 2:26), or of false teachers (2 Tim 3:6); compare also Rom 7:23; 2 Cor 10:5.
See Captivity.
F. K. Farr
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