ἁλίσκω
be caught, captured
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἁλίσκω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 30 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 22:8 ἁλίσκω But if the thief be not found, the master of the house shall come forward before God, and shall swear that surely he has not wrought wickedly in regard of any part of his neighbor's deposit,
- Deuteronomy 24:7 ἁλίσκω And if any one should have recently taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any thing be laid upon him; he shall be free in his house; for one year he shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
- Proverbs 6:2 ἁλίσκω For a man's own lips become a strong snare to him, and he is caught with the lips of his own mouth.
- Proverbs 6:30 ἁλίσκω It is not to be wondered at if one should be taken stealing, for he steals that when hungry he may satisfy his soul:
- Proverbs 6:31 ἁλίσκω but if he should be taken, he shall repay sevenfold, and shall deliver himself by giving all his goods.
- Proverbs 11:6 ἁλίσκω The righteousness of upright men delivers them: but transgressors are caught in their own destruction.
- Proverbs 28:12 ἁλίσκω By reason of the help of righteous men great glory arises: but in the places of the ungodly men are caught.
- Isaiah 8:15 ἁλίσκω Therefore many among them shall be weak, and fall, and be crushed; and they shall draw near, and men shall be taken securely.
- Isaiah 13:15 ἁλίσκω For whoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered together shall fall by the sword.
- Isaiah 14:10 ἁλίσκω All shall answer and say to you, You also have been taken, even as we; and you are numbered among us.
- Isaiah 22:3 ἁλίσκω All your princes have fled, and your captives are tightly bound, and the mighty men in you have fled far away.
- Isaiah 24:18 ἁλίσκω And it shall come to pass, that he that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that comes up out of the pit shall be caught by the snare: for windows have been opened in heaven, and the foundations of the earth shall be shaken,
- Isaiah 27:3 ἁλίσκω I am a strong city, a city in a siege: in vain shall I water it; for it shall be taken by night, and by day the wall shall fall.
- Isaiah 28:13 ἁλίσκω Therefore the oracle of God shall be to them affliction on affliction, hope on hope, yet a little, and yet a little, that they may go and fall backward; and they shall be crushed and shall be in danger, and shall be taken.
- Isaiah 30:13 ἁλίσκω therefore shall this sin be to you as a wall suddenly falling when a strong city has been taken, of which the fall is very near at hand.
- Isaiah 31:9 ἁλίσκω for they shall be compassed with rocks as with a trench, and shall be worsted; and he that flees shall be taken. Thus says the Lord, Blessed is he that has a seed in Sion, and household friends in Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 33:1 ἁλίσκω Woe to them that afflict you; but no one makes you miserable: and he that deals perfidiously with you does not deal perfidiously: they that deal perfidiously shall be taken and given up, and as a moth on a garment, so shall they be spoiled.
- Jeremiah 2:26 ἁλίσκω As is the shame of a thief when he is caught, so shall the children of Israel be ashamed; they, and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets.
- Jeremiah 8:9 ἁλίσκω The wise men are ashamed, and alarmed, and taken; because they have rejected the word of the Lord; what wisdom is there in them?
- Jeremiah 27:2 ἁλίσκω Proclaim you⌃ among the Gentiles, and cause the tidings to be heard, and suppress them not: say you⌃, Babylon is taken, Belus is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Maerodach is delivered up.
- Jeremiah 27:9 ἁλίσκω For, behold, I stir up against Babylon the gatherings of nations out of the land of the north; and they shall set themselves in array against her: thence shall she be taken, as the dart of an expert warrior shall not return empty.
- Jeremiah 27:24 ἁλίσκω They shall come upon you, and you shall not know it, Babylon, that you will even be taken captive: you are found and taken, because you did resist the Lord.
- Jeremiah 28:31 ἁλίσκω One shall rush, running to meet another runner, and one shall go with tidings to meet another with tidings, to bring tidings to the king of Babylon, that his city is taken.
- Jeremiah 28:41 ἁλίσκω How has the boast of all the earth been taken and caught in a snare! how has Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
- Jeremiah 28:56 ἁλίσκω For distress has come upon Babylon, her warriors are taken, their bows are useless: for God recompenses them.
- Ezekiel 17:20 ἁλίσκω And I will spread a net upon him, and he shall be caught in its snare.
- Ezekiel 21:29 ἁλίσκω While you are seeing vain visions, and while you are prophesying falsehoods, to bring yourself upon the necks of ungodly transgressors, the day is come, even an end, in a season of iniquity.
- Ezekiel 33:21 ἁλίσκω And it came to pass in the tenth year of our captivity, in the twelfth month, on the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The city is taken.
- Ezekiel 40:1 ἁλίσκω And it came to pass in the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, in the first month, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the taking of the city, in that day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me
- Zechariah 14:2 ἁλίσκω And I will gather all the Gentiles to Jerusalem to war, and the city shall be taken, and the houses plundered, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, but the rest of my people shall not be utterly cut off from the city.
About this word
About this word
ἁλίσκω (halískō), “be caught, captured,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 30 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →