Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
to take captive
Usage: αἰχμαλωτεύω (αἰχμάλωτος), [in LXX chiefly for שׁבה ;] = αἰχμαλωτίζω, which see, to lead captive: Eph.4:8 (LXX).† (AS)
Aichmaloteuo means “lead captive” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H162 — ahahh (“ah”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G162 αἰχμαλωτεύω (aichmaloteuo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. aichmaloteuo (aikh-mal-o-tew'-o) v. 1. to capture {like G163} It has 36 linked Bible usages across 21 books. Visible English usage signals include captive and lead. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
aichmaloteuo (aikh-mal-o-tew'-o) v. 1. to capture {like G163} [from G164] KJV: lead captive Root(s): G164 Compare: G163
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to take captive
Usage: αἰχμαλωτεύω (αἰχμάλωτος), [in LXX chiefly for שׁבה ;] = αἰχμαλωτίζω, which see, to lead captive: Eph.4:8 (LXX).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render aichmaloteuo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G162 (αἰχμαλωτεύω) appears 37 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
31 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Abram having heard that Lot his nephew had been taken captive, numbered his own homeborn servants three hundred and eighteen, and pursued after them to Dan.
And they took captive all the persons of them, and all their store, and their wives, and plundered both whatever things there were in the city, and whatever things there were in the houses.
And though Beor should have a skillfully contrived hiding place, The Assyrians shall carry thee away captive.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
But when our fathers provoked God unto wrath, and sinned against the Lord of Israel which is in heaven, he gave them over into the power of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of the Chaldees;
But when they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many battles very sore, and were led captives into a land that was not theirs, and the temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by the enemies.
When therefore he had restored unto him the prisoners that he had taken aforetime out of the land of Judea, he returned and went his way into his own land, neither came he anymore into their borders.
First 36 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G162.
And Abram having heard that Lot his nephew had been taken captive, numbered his own homeborn servants three hundred and eighteen, and pursued after them to Dan.
And they took captive all the persons of them, and all their store, and their wives, and plundered both whatever things there were in the city, and whatever things there were in the houses.
And though Beor should have a skillfully contrived hiding place, The Assyrians shall carry thee away captive.
And as to the women and all things that were in it, great and small, they slew neither man nor woman, but carried them captives, and went on their way.
And David and his men came into the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were carried captive.
And both the wives of David were carried captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
and thou shalt be merciful to their unrighteousness wherein they have trespassed against thee, and according to all their transgressions wherewith they have transgressed against thee, and thou shalt cause them to be pitied before them that carried them captives, and they shall have compassion on them:
And the Syrians went forth in small bands, and took captive out of the land of Israel a little maid: and she waited on Naaman’s wife.
And he said, Thou shalt not smite them, unless thou wouldest smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow: set bread and water before them, and let them eat and drink, and depart to their master.
And they took captive their store; five thousand camels, and two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand men.
Whereas if they shall sin against thee (for there is no man who will not sin), and thou shalt smite them, and deliver them up before their enemies, and they that take them captive shall carry them away into a land of enemies, to a land far off or near;
and if they shall turn to thee with all their heart and all their soul in the land of them that carried them captives, whither they carried them captives, and shall pray toward their land which thou gavest to their fathers, and the city which thou didst choose, and the house which I built to thy name—
And the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and he smote him, and took captive of them a great band of prisoners, and carried him to Damascus. Also God delivered him into the hands of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
And now hearken to me, and restore the prisoners of your brethren whom ye have taken: for the fierce anger of the Lord is upon you.
who had been brought a prisoner from Jerusalem, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into captivity.
And the spoilers came and took them for a prey, And slew the servants with the sword; And I having escaped alone am come to tell thee.
While he was yet speaking, there came another messenger, and said to Job, The horsemen formed three companies against us, And surrounded the camels, and took them for a prey, And slew the servants with the sword; And I only escaped, and am come to tell thee.
Thou art gone up on high, thou hast led captivity captive, Thou hast received gifts for man, Yea, for they were rebellious, that thou mightest dwell among them.
For there they that had taken us captive asked of us the words of a song; And they that had carried us away asked a hymn, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
And the Gentiles shall take them, and bring them into their place: and they shall inherit them, and they shall be multiplied upon the land for servants and handmaids: and they that took them captives shall become captives to them; and they that had lordship over them shall be under their rule.
Will anyone take spoils from a giant? and if one should take a man captive unjustly, shall he be delivered?
For thus saith the Lord, If one should take a giant captive, he shall take spoils, and he who takes them from a mighty man shall be delivered: for I will plead thy cause, and I will deliver thy children.
Thus saith the Lord; The children of Israel and the children of Judah have been oppressed: all they that have taken them captive have oppressed them together; for they would not let them go.
then they of you that escape among the nations whither they were carried captive shall remember me (I have sworn an oath against their heart that goes a-whoring from me, and their eyes that go a-whoring after their practices); and they shall mourn over themselves for all their abominations.
Thou therefore, son of man, prepare thyself baggage for going into captivity by day in their sight; and thou shalt be led into captivity from thy place into another place in their sight; that they may see that it is a provoking house.
And all the nations shall know that the house of Israel were led captive because of their sins, because they rebelled against me, and I turned away my face from them, and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.
And I will break to pieces the bars of Damascus, and will destroy the inhabitants out of the plain of Aven, and will cut in pieces a tribe out of the men of Haran: and the famous people of Syria shall be led captive, saith the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they took prisoners the captivity of Solomon, to shut them up into Edom.
But seek not Bethel, and go not in to Gilgal, and cross not over to the Well of the Oath: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall be as that which is not.
From the day that thou stoodest in opposition to him, in the days when foreigners were taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, thou also wast as one of them.
Shave thy hair, and make thyself bald for thy delicate children; increase thy widowhood as an eagle; for thy people are gone into captivity from thee.
Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
But when our fathers provoked God unto wrath, and sinned against the Lord of Israel which is in heaven, he gave them over into the power of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of the Chaldees;
But when they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many battles very sore, and were led captives into a land that was not theirs, and the temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by the enemies.
When therefore he had restored unto him the prisoners that he had taken aforetime out of the land of Judea, he returned and went his way into his own land, neither came he anymore into their borders.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G162, grouped by book.
Aichmaloteuo (Strong's G162) is a Greek word most simply glossed "lead captive". aichmaloteuo (aikh-mal-o-tew'-o) v. 1. to capture {like G163}
This page currently indexes 36 linked usages for Strong's G162 across 21 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G162 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as captive and lead. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 31 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G162, with linked reader references where each row is available.