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שְׁבוּת

shevut · captivity, fortunes

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7622 · appears 30 times in the Bible

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What it means

shevut (שְׁבוּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “captivity, fortunes”.

Captivity: the condition of those taken away as prisoners far from their land. "Turn back the captivity" is to restore someone to his former state.

How to say it

she·vut

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. Being held far from your land; "turning back the exile" means renewal.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

  • Deuteronomy 30:3

    then YHWH your Elohim will restore your captivity and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where YHWH your Elohim has scattered you.

  • Job 42:10

    And YHWH turned back the captivity of Job when he prayed for his companions, and YHWH increased all that Job had twofold.

  • Psalms 14:7

    Oh that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion. When YHWH brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob will be jubilant, Israel will be glad.

  • Psalms 53:6

    Oh that from Zion would come the salvations of Israel! When Elohim brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob will be jubilant, Israel will be glad.

  • Psalms 85:1

    For the director. Of the sons of Korah. A psalm. You took pleasure, YHWH, in your land; you brought back the captivity of Jacob.

  • Psalms 126:4

    Bring back, YHWH, our captivity, like the streambeds in the Negev.

  • Jeremiah 29:14

    And I will be found by you, declares YHWH, and I will bring back your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, declares YHWH, and I will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.

  • Jeremiah 30:3

    For look, days are coming, declares YHWH, when I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says YHWH, and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.”

  • Jeremiah 30:18

    Thus says YHWH: Look, I am bringing back the captivity of the tents of Jacob, and on his dwellings I will have compassion; and the city will be built on its mound of ruins, and the palace on its rightful place will stand.

  • Jeremiah 31:23

    Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: “Once more they will say this word in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I bring back their captivity: ‘May YHWH bless you, dwelling of righteousness, mountain of holiness.’

  • Jeremiah 32:44

    Fields they will buy with silver, and write in deeds, and seal them, and have witnesses testify, in the land of Benjamin, and in the surroundings of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negev; for I will bring back their captivity, declares YHWH.”

  • Jeremiah 33:7

    And I will bring back the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel, and I will build them as at the first.

  • Jeremiah 33:11

    the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to YHWH Tsevaot, for YHWH is good, for his loyal love is forever,’ as they bring thanksgiving to the house of YHWH; for I will bring back the captivity of the land as at the first, says YHWH.

  • Jeremiah 33:26

    then also I will reject the offspring of Jacob and of David my servant, so as not to take from his offspring rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for I will bring back their captivity, and I will have compassion on them.”

  • Jeremiah 48:47

    But I will bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, declares YHWH. Thus far the judgment of Moab.

  • Jeremiah 49:6

    But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the sons of Ammon, declares YHWH.

  • Jeremiah 49:39

    And it will be, in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of Elam, declares YHWH.

  • Lamentations 2:14

    Your prophets have seen for you what is empty and insipid, and they have not exposed your iniquity to bring back your captivity; they have seen for you burdens that are empty and deceptions.

  • Ezekiel 16:53

    And I will bring back their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives in their midst,

  • Ezekiel 29:14

    And I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and I will bring them back to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and they will be there a lowly kingdom.

  • Ezekiel 39:25

    Therefore, thus says Adonai YHWH: Now I will bring back the captivity of Jacob, and I will have compassion on all the house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name.

  • Hosea 6:11

    Also, Judah, a harvest is appointed for you, when I turn back the captivity of my people.

  • Joel 3:1

    For look, in those days and at that time, when I turn back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

  • Amos 9:14

    And I will turn back the captivity of my people Israel, and they will build the desolate cities and live in them; and they will plant vineyards and drink their wine; and they will make gardens and eat their fruit.

  • Zephaniah 2:7

    And the strip will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; on them they will graze; in the houses of Ashkelon in the evening they will lie down; for YHWH their Elohim will attend to them and turn back their captivity.

  • Zephaniah 3:20

    At that time I will bring you, and at the time I gather you; for I will make you a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes,” says YHWH.

And 4 more times.