αἰχμαλωτεύω
aichmalōteúō · G162 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to make captive, to take captive, to capture someone in war
To cause someone to become a prisoner of war
ExamplesEphesians 4:8 Therefore it says, “WHEN HE ASCENDED ON HIGH, HE LED CAPTIVE THE CAPTIVES, AND HE GAVE GIFTS TO PEOPLE.”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- αἰχμαλωσίαcaptivity 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- λέγωto say 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- שָׁבָה shâbâh · H7617 · captive, to take captive, to carry off
- Greek αἰχμαλωτεύω and Hebrew שָׁבָה both denote taking captives in war or forcible deportation, with near-identical core semantics of military capture and leading away prisoners.
- גָּלָה gâlâh · H1540 · to reveal
- Greek αἰχμαλωτεύω specifically denotes taking captive in a military/warfare context (literally 'to capture with a spear'), while Hebrew גָּלָה has a broader semantic range including exile, deportation, uncovering, and disclosure, though its captivity sense overlaps directly with the Greek term in contexts of forced removal and captivity.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To make captive, to take captive, to capture someone in war55.24
- In Ephesians 4:8, the citation “WHEN HE ASCENDED ON HIGH, HE LED CAPTIVE THE CAPTIVES” uses aichmalōteúō for the act of taking prisoners captive, here applied figuratively to Christ's triumph.
Word family 28 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon 1 aorist ἠχμαλώτευσα; a later word (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 442; (Winers Grammar, 92…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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