[kap-tiv] 
| 1. | a prisoner. |
| 2. | a person who is enslaved or dominated; slave: He is the captive of his own fears. |
| 3. | made or held prisoner, esp. in war: captive troops. |
| 4. | kept in confinement or restraint: captive animals. |
| 5. | enslaved by love, beauty, etc.; captivated: her captive beau. |
| 6. | of or pertaining to a captive. |
| 7. | managed as an affiliate or subsidiary of a corporation and operated almost exclusively for the use or needs of the parent corporation rather than independently for the general public: a captive shop; a captive mine. |
| cap·tive (kāp'tĭv) n.
[Middle English captif, from Old French, from Latin captīvus, from captus, past participle of capere, to seize; see kap- in Indo-European roots.] |
Captive
one taken in war. Captives were often treated with great cruelty and indignity (1 Kings 20:32; Josh. 10:24; Judg. 1:7; 2 Sam. 4:12; Judg. 8:7; 2 Sam. 12:31; 1 Chr. 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 (Isa. 20; 47:3; 2 Chr. 28:9-15; Ps. 44:12; Joel 3:3), and exposed to the most cruel treatment (Nah. 3:10; Zech. 14:2; Esther 3:13; 2 Kings 8:12; Isa. 13:16, 18). Captives were sometimes carried away into foreign countries, as was the case with the Jews (Jer. 20:5; 39:9, 10; 40:7).