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שָׁבִי

sh.vi

captive

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Strong’s H7628bNoun, feminine2 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

captives1

o captive one1

In the text

Judges 5:12שֶׁבְיְךָ
‘Awake, awake, O Deborah! Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, O Barak, and take hold of your captives, O son of Abinoam!’
Isaiah 52:2שְׁבִיָּה
Shake off your dust! Rise up and sit on your throne, O Jerusalem. Remove the chains from your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[שָׁבִי adj. vel n.m. whence] שְׁבִיָּה n.f. captive

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.