Bible dictionaries

Hostage

What Bible dictionaries say about “Hostage”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Hostage - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

A person delivered into the hands of another as a security for the performance of some promise, etc. (2 Kings 14:14; 2 Chr. 25:24).

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

hos'-taj.

See WAR.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2