Quick Definition
capture, capturing
Strong's Definition
capture, be taken.
Derivation: from a collateral form of G138 (αἱρέομαι);
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἅλωσις, (εως, ἡ (ἁλόω, ἁλίσκομαι, to be caught), a catching, capture: 2Pe_2:12 εἰς ἅλωσιν to be taken, (some would here take the word actively: to take). (From Pindar and Herodotus down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἅλωσις halōsis 1x
a taking, catching, capture, 2Pe_2:12
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἅλωσις , -εως , ἡ
( < ἁλίσκομαι ),
[in LXX : Jer_50:46 ( H8610 ni .) * ;]
a taking, capture: 2Pe_2:12 .†
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἅλωσις [Etym: ἁλίσκομαι, ἁλῶναι] "a taking, capture, conquest, destruction", Pind. , Aesch. , etc.; δαΐων ἅλ. "conquest" by the enemy, id=Aesch. : "means of conquest", Soph. : ἁλῶναι ἰσχυρὰν ἅλωσιν to be taken without "power to escape", Plut. as law-term, "conviction", Plat.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἅλωσις, -εως, ἡ
(ἁλίσκομαι), [in LXX: Jer.50:46 (תָּפַשׂ ni.)* ;]
a taking, capture: 2Pe.2:12.†
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