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Originally Posted by Janszoon
It probably wasn't called rape in most languages because most languages are not English. It does occur numerous times in the Bible though so it's interesting that there's nothing in there specifically condemning it.
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No, they literally didn't have a word, but they could still describe it:
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Originally Posted by Deuteronomy 22:25–27
But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. 26 But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor, 27 because he met her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her.
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But this is where it gets weird... the above woman was "betrothed" (already owned by anther man). If she's not betrothed:
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If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
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If she's not betrothed, the man's "punishment" is that he "has" to marry the woman he raped and pay her father... nevermind the punishment this causes to the rape victim...