Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
captivity
Usage: 1) captivity, captives 2) defeat, reversed fortunes
Shebuth means “exile” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7622 שְׁבוּת שְׁבִיתּ (shbuwth) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shbuwth (sheb-ooth') (or shbiyth {sheb-eeth'}) n-f. 1. exile 2. (concretely) prisoners It has 26 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include captive. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
shbuwth (sheb-ooth') (or shbiyth {sheb-eeth'}) n-f. 1. exile 2. (concretely) prisoners 3. (figuratively) a former state of prosperity [from H7617] KJV: captive(-ity). Root(s): H7617
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captivity
Usage: 1) captivity, captives 2) defeat, reversed fortunes
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shbuwth, 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 Old 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.
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26 indexed usages in Old Testament.
That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
First 26 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7622.
That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As yet they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity; The LORD bless thee, O habitation of justice, and mountain of holiness.
Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.
And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.
And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the LORD.
But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.
Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7622, grouped by book.
Shebuth (Strong's H7622) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "exile". shbuwth (sheb-ooth') (or shbiyth {sheb-eeth'}) n-f. 1. exile 2. (concretely) prisoners
This page currently indexes 26 linked usages for Strong's H7622 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7622 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as captive. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.