Lexicon :: Strong's G1949 - epilambanomai

After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel with his hand. So he was named Jacob.[fn] Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.

The LORD told Moses, “Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail.” So he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand.

“So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands, shattering them before your eyes.

“If two men are fighting with each other, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she puts out her hand and grabs his genitals,

they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and executed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time forty-two thousand from Ephraim died.

But Samson stayed in bed only until midnight. Then he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate along with the two gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.

The Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he was forced to grind grain in the prison.

But the men would not listen to him, so the man seized his concubine and took her outside to them. They raped her and abused her all night until morning. At daybreak they let her go.

When he entered his house, he picked up a knife, took hold of his concubine, cut her into twelve pieces, limb by limb, and then sent her throughout the territory of Israel.

“Then I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout Israel’s territory, because they have committed a wicked outrage in Israel.

When she brought them to him to eat, he grabbed her and said,[fn] “Come sleep with me, my sister! ”

When a person approached to pay homage to him, Absalom reached out his hand, took hold of him, and kissed him.

Adonijah was afraid of Solomon, so he got up and went to take hold of the horns of the altar.

The lowest chamber was 7 ¹/₂ feet[fn] wide, the middle was 9 feet[fn] wide, and the third was 10 ¹/₂ feet[fn] wide. He also provided offset ledges for the temple all around the outside so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.

Then Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he had on, tore it into twelve pieces,

As Elisha watched, he kept crying out, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel! ”

When he could see him no longer, he took hold of his own clothes, tore them in two,

When she came up to the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone ​— ​she is in severe anguish, and the LORD has hidden it from me. He hasn’t told me.”

He leans on his web, but it doesn’t stand firm.

He grabs it, but it does not hold up.

You have shriveled me up[fn] ​— ​it has become a witness;

my frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.

My clothing is distorted with great force;

he chokes me by the neck of my garment.[fn]

so it may seize the edges of the earth

and shake the wicked out of it?

Take your shields ​— ​large and small —

and come to my aid.

Trembling seized them there,

agony like that of a woman in labor,

Hold on to instruction; don’t let go.

Guard it, for it is your life.

She grabs him and kisses him;

she brazenly says[fn] to him,

A man will even seize his brother

in his father’s house, saying,

“You have a cloak ​— ​you be our leader!

This heap of rubble will be under your control.”

On that day seven women

will seize one man, saying,

“We will eat our own bread

and provide our own clothing.

Just let us bear your name.

Take away our disgrace.”

Their roaring is like a lion’s;

they roar like young lions;

they growl and seize their prey

and carry it off,

and no one can rescue it.

I am not angry.

If only there were thorns and briers for me to battle,

I would trample them

and burn them to the ground.

“This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt ​— ​my covenant that they broke even though I am their master”[fn] ​— ​the LORD’s declaration.

“They have turned their backs to me and not their faces. Though I taught them time and time again,[fn] they do not listen and receive discipline.

“Because you burned incense and sinned against the LORD and didn’t obey the LORD and didn’t follow his instruction, his statutes, and his testimonies, this disaster has come to you, as you see today.”

Damascus has become weak;

she has turned to run;

panic has gripped her.

Distress and labor pains have seized her

like a woman in labor.

“When Israel grasped you by the hand,

you splintered, tearing all their shoulders;

when they leaned on you,

you shattered and made all their hips unsteady.[fn]

“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Look, it has not been bandaged ​— ​no medicine has been applied and no splint put on to bandage it so that it can grow strong enough to handle a sword.

The side rooms were arranged one above another in three stories of thirty rooms each.[fn] There were ledges on the wall of the temple all around to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be in the temple wall itself.

They storm the city;

they run on the wall;

they climb into the houses;

they enter through the windows like thieves.

The LORD of Armies says this: “In those days, ten men from nations of every language will grab the robe of a Jewish man tightly, urging: Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”

On that day a great panic from the LORD will be among them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the other.