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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Captivity

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

127exact KJV occurrences 122Old Testament 5New Testament 29books containing the word 12mapped Strong's IDs 125occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Numbers 21:29

Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 13:10

He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where captivity appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH7622
שְׁבוּת

shᵉbûwth · sheb-ooth'

31 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

exile, concretely, prisoners; figuratively, a former state of prosperity

Strong's KJV usage: captive(-ity).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Numbers 21:29Strong's last: Zephaniah 3:20

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HebrewH1540
גָּלָה

gâlâh · gaw-law'

11 times translated as this KJV form190 total Strong's occurrences

v

to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal

Strong's KJV usage: advertise, appear, bewray, bring, (carry, lead, go) captive (into captivity), depart, disclose, discover, exile, be gone, open, × plainly, publish, remove, reveal, × shamelessly, shew, × surely, tell, uncover.

Strong's first: Judges 18:30Strong's last: Micah 1:16

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HebrewH1546
גָּלוּת

gâlûwth · gaw-looth'

10 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

captivity; concretely, exiles (collectively)

Strong's KJV usage: (they that are carried away) captives(-ity).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 2 Kings 25:27Strong's last: Obadiah 1:20

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HebrewH2925
טַלְטֵלָה

ṭalṭêlâh · tal-tay-law'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

overthrow or rejection

Strong's KJV usage: captivity.

Strong's first: Isaiah 22:17Strong's last: Isaiah 22:17

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HebrewH3627
כְּלִי

kᵉlîy · kel-ee'

1 times translated as this KJV form306 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)

Strong's KJV usage: armour(-bearer), artillery, bag, carriage, furnish, furniture, instrument, jewel, that is made of, × one from another, that which pertaineth, pot, psaltery, sack, stuff, thing, tool, vessel, ware, weapon, whatsoever.

Strong's first: Jeremiah 46:19Strong's last: Jeremiah 46:19

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HebrewH7633
שִׁבְיָה

shibyâh · shib-yaw'

1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

exile (abstractly or concretely and collectively)

Strong's KJV usage: captives(-ity).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Nehemiah 4:4Strong's last: Nehemiah 4:4

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HebrewH7870
שִׁיבָה

shîybâh · shee-baw'

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a return (of property)

Strong's KJV usage: captivity.

Strong's first: Psalms 126:1Strong's last: Psalms 126:1

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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127 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Jeremiah 29:28
no direct Strong's tag

For therefore he sent unto us in Babylon, saying, This captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

Jeremiah 29:31
H1473

Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:

Jeremiah 30:3
H7622

For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

Jeremiah 30:10
H7628

Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.

Jeremiah 30:16
H7628

Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

Jeremiah 30:18
H7622

Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.

Jeremiah 31:23
H7622

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.

Jeremiah 32:44
H7622

Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 33:7
H7622

And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

Jeremiah 33:7
H7622

And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

Jeremiah 33:11
H7622

The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 33:26
H7622

Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

Jeremiah 43:11
H7628

And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.

Jeremiah 43:11
H7628

And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.

Jeremiah 46:19
H3627

O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 46:27
H7628

But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

Jeremiah 48:7
H1473

For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.

Jeremiah 48:11
H1473

Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.

Jeremiah 48:47
H7622

Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

Jeremiah 49:3
H1473

Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.

Jeremiah 49:6
H7622

And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 49:39
H7622

But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 52:31
H1546

And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,

Lamentations 1:3
H1540

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

Lamentations 1:5
H7628

Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

captivity

CAPTIVITY, noun

1. The state of being a prisoner, or of being in the power of an enemy by force or the fate of war.

2. Subjection to love.

3. Subjection; a state of being under control.

Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5.

4. Subjection; servitude; slavery.

But I see another law in my members--bringing me into captivity to the law of sin. Romans 7:23.

To lead captivity captive, in scripture, is to subdue those who have held others in slavery, or captivity Psalms 98:1.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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