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title: שִׁבְיָה — captivity · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שִׁבְיָה (7633), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: captivity. BDB 1906: n.f. captivity, captives. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שִׁבְיָה

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«שִׁבְיָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **captivity** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 9 times · **Key:** 7633 · **BDB:** שִׁבְיָה

### Glosses

captive\[s\] (7); captivity (1); of.captivity (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שִׁבְיָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7633/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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;

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

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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.'

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