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Captives

Taken in war, seem anciently to have been looked upon as justly liable to death, and hence to any treatment less dreadful than death. Their necks were trodden upon, Joshua 10:24, in token of abject subjection, which illustrates Psalm 110:1. They were sold into servitude, like Joseph. They were mutilated, like Samson, or Adonizedek. They were stripped of all clothing, and driven in crowds to adorn the victor's triumph. Large numbers of them were selected, often by a measuring line, 2 Samuel 8:2, and slain, 2 Chronicles 25:12. This was sometimes done with designed cruelty, 2 Samuel 12:31 1 Chronicles 20:3. The Romans in some cases bound a living captive to a dead body, and left them to perish together; a practice which may be applied to illustrate the apostle's cry, "O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death-" Romans 7:24.

Greek

161. aichmalosia -- captivity
... Word Origin from aichmalotos Definition captivity NASB Word Usage captivity (2),
host of captives (1). captivity. From aichmalotos; captivity -- captivity. ...
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164. aichmalotos -- captive
... Word Origin from aichme (a spear) and haliskomai (to be taken, conquered)
Definition captive NASB Word Usage captives (1). captive. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7633. shibyah -- captivity, captives
... 7632, 7633. shibyah. 7634 . captivity, captives. Transliteration: shibyah
Phonetic Spelling: (shib-yaw') Short Definition: captives. ...
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7628b. shebi -- captivity, captives
... 7628a, 7628b. shebi. 7629 . captivity, captives. Transliteration: shebi
Short Definition: captivity. Word Origin from shabah Definition ...
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7622. shebuth -- captivity, captives
... 7621, 7622. shebuth or shebith. 7623 . captivity, captives. Transliteration:
shebuth or shebith Phonetic Spelling: (sheb-ooth') Short Definition: fortunes. ...
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1546. galuth -- an exile
... Word Origin from galah Definition an exile NASB Word Usage captives (1), exile
(5), exiles (8), population (2). they that are carried away captives. ...
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1540. galah -- to uncover, remove
... root Definition to uncover, remove NASB Word Usage away into exile (2), banished
(1), betray (1), captives (1), captivity (1), carried (1), carried and away (1 ...
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7617. shabah -- to take captive
... root Definition to take captive NASB Word Usage captives (2), captors (2), captors
captive (1), captured (4), carried (4), carried away captive (1), carried ...
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1473. golah -- exiles, exile
... part. of galah Definition exiles, exile NASB Word Usage captives (1), exile (19),
exiled* (1), exiles (16), exiles* (5). carried away, captivity, removing. ...
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4455. malqowach -- booty, prey
... booty, jaws, prey From laqach; transitively (in dual) the jaws (as taking food);
intransitively, spoil (and captives) (as taken) -- booty, jaws, prey. ...
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7634. Shobyah -- Shachia
... 7633, 7634. Shobyah. 7635 . Shachia. Transliteration: Shobyah Phonetic Spelling:
(shob-yaw') Short Definition: captives. Word Origin see Sakeyah. Shachia ...
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616. assir -- prisoners
... Word Origin from asar Definition prisoners NASB Word Usage captives (1), prisoner
(1), prisoners (2). prisoner. For 'aciyr: prisoner. see HEBREW 'aciyr. ...
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Library

Willing Captives.
... Homily VIII. Chapter XX."Willing Captives. "Having charged them to this
effect, the angel departed. But you are still ignorant ...
/.../unknown/the clementine homilies/chapter xx willing captives.htm

Kind Treatment of the Persian Captives by Acacius Bishop of Amida.
... Book VII. Chapter XXI."Kind Treatment of the Persian Captives by Acacius
Bishop of Amida. A noble action of Acacius bishop of ...
/.../chapter xxi kind treatment of the.htm

The Courage of Four Captives
... THE OLD TESTAMENT THE COURAGE OF FOUR CAPTIVES. Nebuchadrezzar, the king
of Babylon, commanded Ashpenaz, the chief of his servants ...
/.../sherman/the childrens bible/the courage of four captives.htm

Hebrew Captives; Or, Mordecai and Esther.
... HEBREW CAPTIVES; OR, MORDECAI AND ESTHER. The next pictured scene is in the Court
of Persia. ... Among the captives there was Esther, a Hebrew maiden. ...
/.../headley/half hours in bible lands volume 2/hebrew captives or mordecai and.htm

How Ptolemy Philadelphus Procured the Laws of the Jews to be ...
... CHAPTER 2. How Ptolemy Philadelphus Procured The Laws Of The Jews To Be Translated
Into The Greek Tongue And Set Many Captives Free, And Dedicated Many Gifts ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 2 how ptolemy philadelphus.htm

Some Indian Nations Received Christianity at that Time through the ...
... Book II. Chapter XXIV."Some Indian Nations received Christianity at that Time through
the Instrumentality of Two Captives, Frumentius and Edesius. ...
/.../chapter xxiv some indian nations received.htm

What Injunctions Caesar Gave when He was Come Within the City. The ...
... The Number Of The Captives And Of Those That Perished In The Siege; As Also Concerning
Those That Had Escaped Into The Subterranean Caverns, Among Whom Were ...
/.../chapter 9 what injunctions caesar.htm

Mercy must be Freely Shown Even Though it Brings an Odium of Its ...
... to this, reference is made to the well-known story about the sacred vessels which
were broken up by Ambrose to pay for the redemption of captives; and very ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter xxviii mercy must be.htm

How Upon the Death of Jotham, Ahaz Reigned in his Stead; against ...
... They also carried the women and children of the tribe of Benjamin captives; and
when they had gotten a great deal of prey, they returned to Samaria. ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 12 how upon the.htm

Of Liberality. ...
... 70. The highest kind of liberality is, to redeem captives, to save them from the
hands of their enemies, to snatch men from death, and, most of all, women from ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter xv of liberality .htm

Thesaurus

Captives (69 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Captives (69 Occurrences). Luke 4:18 "The Spirit of the
Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. ...
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Fellow-captives (1 Occurrence)
Fellow-captives. Fellow-captive, Fellow-captives. Fellow-citizen .
Multi-Version Concordance Fellow-captives (1 Occurrence). ...
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Sepharad (1 Occurrence)
... uncertainty attaches to the word Sepharad, the drift of the prophecy is clear, viz.,
that not only the exiles from Babylon, but Jewish captives from other and ...
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Exiles (46 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 20:4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the
exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks ...
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Targum
... In Palestine a similar process had been going on in the absence of the captives.
Intruders ... Hebrew. Another process had begun among the captives. ...
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Kir (11 Occurrences)
... In 2 Kings 16:9 it is mentioned as the place whither Tiglath-pileser IV carried
the Syrian (Aramean) captives which he deported from Damascus after he had ...
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Removal (42 Occurrences)
... Ezra 2:1 And these 'are' sons of the province who are going up -- of the captives
of the removal that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed to Babylon, and ...
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Slavery (31 Occurrences)
... slav, slav'-er-i: 1. Acquiring of Slaves 2. Hebrews as War Captives 3. Freedom of
Slaves 4. Rights of Slaves 5. Rights of Slave Masters 6. The New Testament ...
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Jehoiachin (20 Occurrences)
... It was rather a historic landmark than a reign; but its year, 597 BC, was important
as the date of the first deportation of Jewish captives to Babylon (unless ...
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Slave (148 Occurrences)
... slav, slav'-er-i: 1. Acquiring of Slaves 2. Hebrews as War Captives 3. Freedom of
Slaves 4. Rights of Slaves 5. Rights of Slave Masters 6. The New Testament ...
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Captives (69 Occurrences)

Luke 4:18
"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Ephesians 4:8
For this reason Scripture says: "He re-ascended on high, He led captive a host of captives, and gave gifts to men."
(WEY NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 31:26
Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 21:29
Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh; he hath given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
(See RSV NIV)

Numbers 31:9
And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
(KJV DBY WBS)

Numbers 31:12
They brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 31:19
"Encamp outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 31:26
Take up the sum of the prey of the captives, among man and among beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers of the company;
(YLT)

Deuteronomy 21:10
When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou hast taken captives of them,
(DBY NIV)

Deuteronomy 21:11
and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 32:42
I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 5:12
'Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.'
(WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 30:2
And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.
(KJV DBY WBS)

1 Samuel 30:3
So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
(KJV JPS DBY WBS)

1 Samuel 30:5
And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
(KJV JPS DBY WBS)

1 Kings 8:46
If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;
(KJV DBY WBS)

1 Kings 8:47
Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
(KJV WBS)

2 Kings 24:14
He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

2 Chronicles 6:36
If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;
(KJV DBY WBS)

2 Chronicles 6:38
If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
(KJV DBY WBS)

2 Chronicles 28:5
Therefore Yahweh his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they struck him, and carried away of his a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. He was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)

2 Chronicles 28:11
Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives, that you have taken captive from your brothers; for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Chronicles 28:13
and said to them, You shall not bring in the captives here: for you purpose that which will bring on us a trespass against Yahweh, to add to our sins and to our trespass; for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Chronicles 28:14
So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Chronicles 28:15
The men who have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all who were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers: then they returned to Samaria.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Chronicles 28:17
For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried away captives.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ezra 2:1
And these 'are' sons of the province who are going up -- of the captives of the removal that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed to Babylon, and they turn back to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city --
(YLT)

Ezra 8:35
Those coming in of the captives -- sons of the removal -- have brought near burnt-offerings to the God of Israel, bullocks twelve, for all Israel, rams ninety and six, lambs seventy and seven, young he-goats for a sin-offering twelve -- the whole a burnt-offering to Jehovah;
(YLT)

Nehemiah 4:4
Hear, O our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up to spoiling in a land of captivity;
(See RSV)

Nehemiah 7:6
These 'are' sons of the province, those coming up of the captives of the removal that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed -- and they turn back to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his city --
(YLT)

Nehemiah 8:17
And they make -- all the assembly of the captives of the captivity -- booths, and they sit in booths; for the sons of Israel had not done, from the days of Jeshua son of Nun, so unto that day, and there is very great joy.
(YLT)

Esther 2:6
who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Psalms 68:18
You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 106:46
He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
(KJV DBY WBS)

Psalms 126:1
When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 10:4
They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
(See JPS NAS NIV)

Isaiah 14:2
The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh's land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NIV)

Isaiah 14:17
Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 20:4
so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 42:7
To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 45:13
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
(KJV DBY WBS)

Isaiah 49:24
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?
(WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 49:25
But thus says Yahweh, "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 59:20
And come to Zion hath a redeemer, Even to captives of transgression in Jacob, An affirmation of Jehovah.
(YLT)

Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 24:5
Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
(WEB JPS ASV NAS)

Jeremiah 28:4
and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon, says Yahweh; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. Lamentations
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Jeremiah 29:1
Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
(KJV WBS)

Jeremiah 29:4
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;
(KJV WBS)

Jeremiah 29:7
And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
(KJV WBS)

Jeremiah 29:22
and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
(WEB ASV)

Jeremiah 40:1
The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.
(WEB JPS ASV RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 41:10
And Ishmael taketh captive all the remnant of the people who 'are' in Mizpah, the daughters of the king, and all the people who are left in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners, hath committed 'to' Gedaliah son of Ahikam, and Ishmael son of Nethaniah taketh them captive, and goeth to pass over unto the sons of Ammon.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 43:3
But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.
(KJV JPS DBY WBS)

Jeremiah 43:12
And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.
(KJV JPS WBS)

Jeremiah 48:46
Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.
(KJV DBY WBS YLT)

Jeremiah 50:33
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.
(KJV JPS DBY WBS)

Lamentations 1:5
Her adversaries have become chief, Her enemies have been at ease, For Jehovah hath afflicted her, For the abundance of her transgressions, Her infants have gone captive before the adversary.
(See NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 1:1
Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Ezekiel 6:9
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
(KJV JPS DBY WBS)

Ezekiel 12:11
Say: I 'am' your type; as I have done so it is done to them, into a removal, into a captivity, they do go.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 16:53
I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives in the midst of them;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Daniel 2:25
Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.
(KJV WBS)

Daniel 11:8
And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north.
(KJV WBS)

Amos 1:9
Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their delivering up a complete captivity to Edom, And they remembered not the brotherly covenant,
(See NIV)

Amos 6:7
Therefore now they remove at the head of the captives, And turned aside is the mourning-feast of stretched-out ones.
(YLT)

Obadiah 1:20
The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.
(WEB ASV DBY)

Habakkuk 1:9
They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.
(ASV DBY JPS NAS RSV)

Zechariah 9:11
As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Captives

Related Terms

Fellow-captives (1 Occurrence)

Sepharad (1 Occurrence)

Exiles (46 Occurrences)

Targum

Kir (11 Occurrences)

Removal (42 Occurrences)

Slavery (31 Occurrences)