STRONGS NUMBER G161


Word Summary
aichmalōsia: captivity
Original Word: αἰχμαλωσία
Transliteration: aichmalōsia
Phonetic Spelling: (aheekh-mal-o-see'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: captivity
Meaning: captivity
Strong's Concordance
captivity.

From aichmalotos; captivity -- captivity.

see GREEK aichmalotos

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 161: αἰχμαλωσία

αἰχμαλωσία, (ας, (αἰχμάλωτος, which see), captivity: Revelation 13:10; abstr, for concr, equivalent to αἰχμάλωτοι (cf. ἀδελφότης above), Ephesians 4:8 (from Psalm 67:19 () (cf. Buttmann, 148 (129); Winer's Grammar, 225 (211)); also εἰ τίς αἰχμαλωσίαν συνάγει (according to the common but doubtless corrupt text), Revelation 13:10 (as in Numbers 31:12, etc.). (Polybius, Diodorus, Josephus, Plutarch, others.)