shivya · captivity, captives

What it means

shivya (שִׁבְיָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “captivity, captives”.

Captivity; also the group of captives.

How to say it

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. Prisoners carried far away in war, or the state of being captive.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• captives ×7
• captivity ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×3
• 2 Chronicles×7
• Nehemiah×1
• Jeremiah×1

• Deuteronomy 21:11

  and you see among the captives a woman beautiful in form, and you become attached to her and would take her for yourself as a wife,

• Deuteronomy 21:13

  and she shall remove the garment of her captivity from herself, and she shall stay in your house and weep for her father and her mother a full month; and after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

• Deuteronomy 32:42

  I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.’

• 2 Chronicles 6:37

  and they bring it back to their heart in the land where they have been carried captive, and they return and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, and we have acted wickedly,’

• 2 Chronicles 6:38

  and they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they carried them captive, and they pray toward their land that you gave to their fathers, and the city that you have chosen, and toward the house that I have built for your name,

• 2 Chronicles 28:5

  YHWH his Elohim gave him into the hand of the king of Aram, and they struck him and took captive from him a great number of captives and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great blow.

• 2 Chronicles 28:11

  Now listen to me and send back the captives whom you have taken captive from your brothers, for the burning anger of YHWH is upon you.”

• 2 Chronicles 28:13

  and said to them, “You shall not bring the captives here, for what you intend leads to guilt before YHWH upon us, to add to our sins and to our acts of guilt; for great is the guilt we have, and there is burning anger against Israel.”

• 2 Chronicles 28:14

  So the equipped men left the captives and the plunder before the officials and all the assembly.

• 2 Chronicles 28:15

  Then the men who had been designated by name rose up and took charge of the captives; and all the naked among them they clothed from the spoil; they clothed them, gave them sandals, gave them food and drink, anointed them, led them on donkeys, all who stumbled, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, beside their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

• Nehemiah 4:4

  Hear, our Elohim, for we have become an object of contempt; and turn back their reproach on their own head, and give them as plunder in a land of captivity.

• Jeremiah 48:46

  Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh has perished, for your sons have been taken into captivity, and your daughters into captivity.