Hálōsis — G259

Definition

feminine noun

capture, be taken.

Usually translated as

taken

Origin

from a collateral form of G138

• hairéomai (G138)

Occurrences

Hálōsis occurs 1 time in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Peter (1)

• 2 Peter 2:12 — But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken (ἅλωσιν) and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;