αἰχμαλώτοις  [1 verse]((adj pl masc dat) "Captives" is the adjective, aichmalōtos, meaning "taken by the spear", "captive", and "prisoner."  - The Greek word translated as "captives" means  "captive" and "prisoner." It is an adjective, used as a noun. When Christ does this, he usually uses an article ("the"), but the OT Septuagint does so less often because the article is not used in the original Hebrew.