noun · feminine
halōsias
Strong’sG259
capture, capturing
stem halōsi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἅλωσις, -εως, ἡ
(< ἁλίσκομαι), [in LXX: Je 50:46 (תּפשׂ ni.)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G259 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhal'-o-sis
capture, be taken.
Fromfrom a collateral form of G138;
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect ιος, ἡ, capture, Refs 5th c.BC+; δαΐων ἅ. conquest by enemy, Refs: means of conquest, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 taking, catching of birds and fish, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἑαλωκότες ἰσχυρὰν ἅλωσιν taken without power to escape, Refs 1st c.AD+
II law-term, conviction, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | halōsias | halōsiais |
| object accusative | halōsian1×ἅλωσιν | halōsiain |
| direct address vocative | halōsiar | halōsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | halōsiau | halōsiaiu |
| to, for dative | halōsia | halōsiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
halōsia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
halōsian“caught”objectaccusative singular1×
2 Peter 2:12“caught”… hōs alogeim zōeim gennorēnteim fusikeim eis halōsian kai fthoran, en hei agnoalō blasfēmarōntois, …… men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like …