Ravish – (intransitive verb) To seize someone by violence and take away hastily.
Ravished – (transitive verb) To be filled with great delight; To be mentally transported into ecstasy.
God used this word in its various forms 7 times in Scripture, all to Israel in their Masoretic Text Old Testament.
The first 4 instances are Transitive Verbs; consensual emotional/sexual pleasures. These passages are written about men being ravished, not women.
The last 3 instances are Intransitive Verbs; seized by violence and take away hastily. The passages stipulate that the people being ravished are women and maids.
Christianity has injected the false connotation to the word by injecting that if a woman is seized by violence and taken away, it must be to rape her (false doctrine). However, historically, when invading forces rape the women, they are not concerned with hiding it … they take their time and commit the rapes openly in public places, sometimes taking them with them, but usually just discarding or killing them when they are finished … they don’t take them away hastily.
The passages give no indication that the motive is sexual-impropriety, but rather to be taken as slaves, or possibly as potential wives.
See also Christian, Damsel, Girl, Maiden, Virgin, Wife, Woman