| Lexical Summary halōsis: a taking, captureOriginal 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 Concordancecapture, be taken. From a collateral form of haireomai; capture, be taken. see GREEK haireomai Thayer's Greek LexiconSTRONGS NT 259: ἅλωσις ἅλωσις, (εως, ἡ (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.) | 



