Dict: easton - Captive

easton:

Captive @ one taken in war. Captives were often treated with great cruelty and indignity (kjvKings:20:32; kjv@Joshua:10:24; kjv@Judges:1:7; kjv@2Samuel:4:12; kjv@Judges:8:7; kjv@2Samuel:12:31; kjv@1Chronicles:20:3). When a city was taken by assault, all the men were slain, and the women and children carried away captive and sold as slaves kjv@Isaiah:20; 47:3; kjv@2Chronicals:28:9-15; kjv@Psalms:44:12; kjv@Joel:3:3), and exposed to the most cruel treatment kjv@Nahum:3:10; kjv@Zechariah:14:2; kjv@Esther:3:13; kjv@2Kings:8:12; kjv@Isaiah:13:16-18). Captives were sometimes carried away into foreign countries, as was the case with the Jews kjv@Jeremiah:20:5 kjv@Jeremiah:39:9-10 kjv@Jeremiah:40:7 ).