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BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Babylonian Captivity mean?
• BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY (noun)
The noun BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY has 1 sense:
1. the deportation of the Jews to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC
Familiarity information: BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The deportation of the Jews to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
deportation; exile; expatriation; transportation (the act of expelling a person from their native land)
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