STRONGS NUMBER G259


Word Summary
halōsis: a taking, capture
Original Word: ἅλωσις
Transliteration: halōsis
Phonetic Spelling: (hal'-o-sis)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a taking, capture
Meaning: a taking, capture
Strong's Concordance
capture, be taken.

From a collateral form of haireomai; capture, be taken.

see GREEK haireomai

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 259: ἅλωσις

ἅλωσις, (εως, (ἁλόω, ἁλίσκομαι, to be caught), a catching, capture: 2 Peter 2:12 εἰς ἅλωσιν to be taken, (some would here take the word actively: to take). (From Pindar and Herodotus down.)