שִׁבְיָהshibyâh

captivity, captives, (collective), compareשְׁבִי

Pronunciation: shib-yaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7633

Meanings

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 9 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 21:11 And suppose you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her and want to marry her.
  • Deuteronomy 32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh— the blood of the slaughtered and the captives, and the heads of the enemy leaders.”’
  • 2 Chronicles 28:5 Because of all this, the Lord his God allowed the king of Aram to defeat Ahaz and to exile large numbers of his people to Damascus. The armies of the king of Israel also defeated Ahaz and inflicted many casualties on his army.
  • 2 Chronicles 28:11 Listen to me and return these prisoners you have taken, for they are your own relatives. Watch out, because now the Lord’s fierce anger has been turned against you!”
  • 2 Chronicles 28:13 “You must not bring the prisoners here!” they declared. “We cannot afford to add to our sins and guilt. Our guilt is already great, and the Lord’s fierce anger is already turned against Israel.”
  • 2 Chronicles 28:14 So the warriors released the prisoners and handed over the plunder in the sight of the leaders and all the people.
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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).