שָׁבָהshâbâh

take captive

Pronunciation: shaw-baw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7617

Meanings

Qal: take captive (Jeremiah 41:14; Jeremiah 43:12; 2 Kings 6:22)

1.

a. with accusative of person (Numbers 24:22; 1 Samuel 30:2; 2 Kings 5:2)

c. participle in periphrastic conjugation (Isaiah 14:2; 1 Kings 8:46; 2 Chronicles 6:36)

2. with accusative of cognate meaning with verb (Judges 5:12; Psalms 68:19; 2 Chronicles 28:17)

Niph`al: be taken captive (Genesis 14:14; Exodus 22:9; Jeremiah 13:17)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 47 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 14:14 When Abram heard that his nephew Lot had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men who had been born into his household. Then he pursued Kedorlaomer’s army until he caught up with them at Dan.
  • Genesis 31:26 “What do you mean by deceiving me like this?” Laban demanded. “How dare you drag my daughters away like prisoners of war?
  • Genesis 34:29 They looted all their wealth and plundered their houses. They also took all their little children and wives and led them away as captives.
  • Exodus 22:10 “Now suppose someone leaves a donkey, ox, sheep, or any other animal with a neighbor for safekeeping, but it dies or is injured or is taken away, and no one sees what happened.
  • Numbers 21:1 The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that the Israelites were approaching on the road through Atharim. So he attacked the Israelites and took some of them as prisoners.
  • Numbers 24:22 But the Kenites will be destroyed when Assyria takes you captive.”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).