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.
No. That’s the definition of English “capture”, not Hebrew “taphas”, which refers to one sense of “capture” and not all. Twisting words around really isn’t helping your case.