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So all “capture” methods are the same? Ignoring the meaning of the word is not going to help you. Even the English word “capture” has more than one sense:

1. to take by force or stratagem

2. to gain control of or exert influence over …

Since the word taphas clearly has the meaning of manipulation, the method of capture is by stratagem—and seduction is a means of capture, clearly not of the same character as indicated by khazaq (taking by force/violence, hence rape).

I don’t know how to break it to you, but taphas has no indication of rape.

So all “capture” methods are the same? Ignoring the meaning of the word is not going to help you. Even the English word “capture” has more than one sense:
1. to take by force or stratagem

So it CAN MEAN you take her by force, and all you have to do is pay the bride price and marry her. All this does is confirm that rape and seduction were indistinguishable to Middle Easterners. You have sex with a virgin, you marry her. Whether you held her down and punched her in the face, or gave her chocolates, it's all the same to them. If she belongs to another man, you die. You die if you held her down. You die if you gave her chocolates. It doesn't matter to your legal status.

It might buy HER freedom, but it won't make the slightest difference to the man. They did not recognize rape in evaluating the man's guilt, only the woman's.