ἅλωσις
hálōsis · G259 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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capture, to be caught
The capture or catching of animals
Examples2 Peter 2:12 But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, using abusive speech where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,
How it’s used In 1 role
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1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 2
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Contrasting words 1 word
- ἄφεσις áphesis · G859 · to pardon, to forgive, forgiveness
- The act of release or liberation stands as the conceptual opposite to the act of capture; ἄφεσις denotes setting free, the reverse action of ἅλωσις (taking captive)
In the other Testament 2 words
- שְׁבִי shᵉbîy · H7628 · taking captive, carrying off, captive
- Standard Hebrew term for captivity/capture, the state or act of being taken captive; direct translation equivalent for the Greek ἅλωσις in contexts of military or forceful seizure
- שָׁבָה shâbâh · H7617 · captive, to take captive, to carry off
- Hebrew verb meaning 'to take captive' or 'carry into captivity'; the nominal sense of capture/captivity expressed by ἅλωσις corresponds closely to the action denoted by שָׁבָה
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Capture, to be caught44.11
- In 2 Peter 2:12, false teachers are compared to unreasoning animals “born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed (há̄sin),” where the noun names the act of being caught, as in hunting.
Word family 28 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (εως, ἡ (ἁλόω, ἁλίσκομαι, to be caught), a catching, capture: 2 Pet 2:12 εἰς ἅλωσιν to be…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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