12 occurrences in 12 translations

'Captive' in the Bible

Therefore my people are led away captive from lack of knowledge, and their nobility die of famine, and their multitude are parched with thirst.

Verse ConceptsDangers Of IgnorancePoverty, SpiritualSuffering, Causes OfPeople Exiled

For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob (the captives in Babylon) and will again choose Israel, and will settle them in their own land. Foreigners (Gentiles) will join them [as proselytes] and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob (Israel).

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfForeignerselection, privileges ofChoicesLand, As A Divine GiftLand, Spiritual Aspects OfParticipation, In ChristUnity, God's Goal OfAliens, Believers DutyForeigners Included Among The PeopleGod Will Show MercyFamily UnityStrangers in israelAliensisrael

Many nations will take them and bring them to their land and their own place. The house of Israel will put those nations to conscripted labor in the LORD's land. They will take captive those who were their captors, and will rule continually over those who oppressed them.

Verse ConceptsStrangers in israel

All your rulers have fled together,And have been captured without the bow;All of you who were found were taken captive together,Though they had fled far away.

Verse ConceptsIsrael Fleeing

So the word of the Lord to them will be,“Order on order, order on order,Line on line, line on line,A little here, a little there,”That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive.

Verse ConceptsGraduallyReprobatesGod's OrdersExposition Of The ScripturesFalling Backwards

But these people are looted and plundered; all of them are trapped in pits and held captive in prisons. They were carried away as loot with no one to rescue them; they were carried away as plunder, and no one says, "Bring that back!"

Verse ConceptsPlunderingRescueTrapPrisonscredibilityjail

Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesAttitudes To BarrennessBereavementwandering

Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?

For thus said Jehovah: Even the captive of the mighty is taken, And the prey of the terrible is delivered, And with thy striver I strive, and thy sons I save.

Verse ConceptsBlood, Figurative UsePromises To Stand on

The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

Verse ConceptsPeople Releasing Others

Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersNecksChainsGet Up!Beauty And Self WorthBreaking Chainsdiscriminationdustfreejerusalemziondignity

Thy gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.

Verse ConceptsGatesShutting SecurelyThe Act Of OpeningOpening GatesShutting GatesDay Or NightGetting RichJerusalem In Millennial KingdomGentiles

Bible Theasaurus

Absorbed (10 instances)
Captive (146 instances)
Confined (35 instances)
Engrossed (1 instance)
Imprisoned (36 instances)
Intent (65 instances)
Lover (90 instances)
Prisoner (110 instances)
Wrapped (54 instances)

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