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Lexicon :: Strong's G2722 - katechō

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κατέχω
Transliteration
katechō (Key)
Pronunciation
kat-ekh'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:829,286

Strong’s Definitions

κατέχω katéchō, kat-ekh'-o; from G2596 and G2192; to hold down (fast), in various applications (literally or figuratively):—have, hold (fast), keep (in memory), let, × make toward, possess, retain, seize on, stay, take, withhold.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x

The KJV translates Strong's G2722 in the following manner: hold (3x), hold fast (3x), keep (2x), possess (2x), stay (1x), take (1x), have (1x), make (1x), miscellaneous (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x
The KJV translates Strong's G2722 in the following manner: hold (3x), hold fast (3x), keep (2x), possess (2x), stay (1x), take (1x), have (1x), make (1x), miscellaneous (5x).

  1. to hold back, detain, retain

    1. from going away

    2. to restrain, hinder (the course or progress of)

      1. that which hinders, Antichrist from making his appearance

      2. to check a ship's headway i.e. to hold or head the ship

    3. to hold fast, keep secure, keep firm possession of

  2. to get possession of, take

    1. to possess

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κατέχω katéchō, kat-ekh'-o; from G2596 and G2192; to hold down (fast), in various applications (literally or figuratively):—have, hold (fast), keep (in memory), let, × make toward, possess, retain, seize on, stay, take, withhold.
STRONGS G2722:
κατέχω; imperfect κατεῖχον; 2 aorist subjunctive κατάσχω; imperfect passive κατειχομην;
1. to hold back, detain, retain;
a. τινα, from going away, followed by τοῦ μή with an infinitive, Luke 4:42 (Buttmann, § 140, 16 β.; cf. Winer's Grammar, 604 (561)); τινα πρός ἐμαυτόν, Philemon 1:13. Passive (as often in Greek writings from Homer down; cf. Passow, under the word, p. 1677a; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 6)), of some troublesome condition or circumstance by which one is held as it were bound: νοσήματι, John 5:4 (G T Tr WH omit the passage); ἐν τίνι, Romans 7:6.
b. to restrain, hinder (the course or progress of): τήν ἀλήθειαν ἐν ἀδικία, Romans 1:18; absolutely, τό κατέχον, that which hinders, namely, Antichrist from making his appearance (see ἀντίχριστος); the power of the Roman empire is meant; ὁ κατέχων, he that hinders, checks, namely, the advent of Antichrist, denotes the one in whom that power is lodged, the Roman emperor: 2 Thessalonians 2:6f (cf., besides DeWette and Lünemann at the passage (Lightfoot in B. D. under Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the), especially Schneckenburger in the Jahrbücher f. deutsche Theol. for 1859, p. 421f). κατέχω (namely, τήν ναῦν) εἰς τήν αἰγιαλόν, to check the ship's headway (better (cf. the preceding context) "to hold or head the ship, cf. Herodotus 7, 59.188 etc.; Bos, Ellips. (edited by Schaefer), p. 318; see, too, Odyssey 11, 455f (cf. Eustathius 1629, 18; Thomas Magister, Ritschl edition, p. 310, 7ff); but Passow (as below), et al., take the verb as intransitive in such a connection, viz. to make for; cf. Kypke, Observations, 2:144) in order to land, Acts 27:40 (Xenophon, Hell. 2, 1, 29 κατασχων ἐπί τήν Ἀβερνιδα; many other examples are given in Passow, under the word, II. 3; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, B. 2)).
c. to hold fast, keep secure, keep firm possession of: with the accusative of the thing, τόν λόγον, Luke 8:15; followed by the orat. obliq., 1 Corinthians 15:2 (Buttmann, §§ 139,58; 150, 20; Winer's Grammar, 561 (522)); τάς παραδόσεις, 1 Corinthians 11:2; τό καλόν, 1 Thessalonians 5:21; τήν παρρησίαν (τήν ἀρχήν etc.) μέχρι τέλους βεβαίαν κατασχεῖν, Hebrews 3:6, 14; τήν ὁμολογίαν τῆς ἐλπίδος ἀκλινῆ, Hebrews 10:23.
2. equivalent to Latin obtinere, i. e.
a. to get possession of, take: Matthew 21:38 R G; Luke 14:9.
b. to possess: 1 Corinthians 7:30; 2 Corinthians 6:10.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
21:38
Luke
4:42; 8:15; 14:9
John
5:4
Acts
27:40
Romans
1:18; 7:6
1 Corinthians
7:30; 11:2; 15:2
2 Corinthians
6:10
1 Thessalonians
5:21
2 Thessalonians
2:6
Philemon
1:13
Hebrews
3:6; 3:14; 10:23

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Strong's Number G2722 matches the Greek κατέχω (katechō),
which occurs 40 times in 37 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:56 - But he said to them, Hinder me not, for the Lord has prospered my journey for me; send me away, that I may depart to my master.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:20 - And his master took Joseph, and cast him into the prison, into the place where the king's prisoners are kept, there in the prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:19 - If ye be peaceable, let one of your brethren be detained in prison; but go ye, and carry back the [fn]corn ye have purchased.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:13 - remembering Abraam and Isaac and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou hast sworn by thyself, and hast spoken to them, saying, I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of heaven for multitude, and all this land which thou spokest of to give to them, so that they shall possess it for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:11 - Go into the midst of the camp of the people, and command the people, saying, Prepare provisions; for yet three days and ye [fn]shall go over this Jordan, entering in to take possession of the land, which the Lord God of your fathers gives to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:9 - And he said to me, Stand, I pray thee, over me, and slay me, for a dreadful darkness has come upon me, for all my life is in me.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21 - And Abenner said to him, Turn thou to the right hand or to the left, and lay hold for thyself on one of the young men, and take to thyself his armour: but Asael would not turn back from following him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:10 - he that reported to me that Saul was dead, even he was as one bringing glad tidings before me: but I seized him and slew him in Sekelac, to whom I ought, as he thought, to have given a reward for his tidings.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:6 - And they come as far as the threshing floor of Nachor: and Oza reached forth his hand to the ark of God to keep it steady, and took hold of it; for [fn]the ox shook it out of its place.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:51 - And it was reported to Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonias fears king Solomon, and holds the horns of the altar, saying, Let Solomon swear to me this day, that he will not slay his servant with the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:28 - And the report came to Joab son of Saruia; for Joab had turned after Adonias, and he went not after Solomon: and Joab fled to the tabernacle of the Lord, and caught hold of the horns of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:9 - And they came as far as the threshing-floor: and Oza put forth his hand to hold the ark, because the bullock moved it from its place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:8 - And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Adad the prophet, then he strengthened himself, and cast out the abominations from all the land of Juda and Benjamin, and from the cities which Jeroboam possessed, in mount Ephraim, and he renewed the altar of the Lord, which was before the temple of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:5 - And next to them the Thecoim took their place; but the Adorim applied not their neck to their service.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:24 - Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 23:9 - When he wrought on the left hand, then I observed it not: his right hand shall encompass me but I shall not see it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:17 - all these things shall the righteous gain, and the truehearted shall possess his wealth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:14 - For if he would confine, and restrain his spirit with himself;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:36 - (LXX 68:37) And the seed of his servants shall possess it, and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:12 - (LXX 72:12) Behold, these are the sinners, and they that prosper always: they have possessed wealth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:53 - (LXX 118:53) Despair took hold upon me, because of the sinners who forsake thy law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:10 - (LXX 138:10) for even there thy hand would guide me, and thy right hand would hold me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:15 - [fn]Cowardice possesses the effeminate man; and the soul of the sluggard shall hunger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:8 - They all hold a sword, being expert in war: every man has his sword upon his thigh because of fear by night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:22 - It is he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched it out as a tent to dwell in:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:24 - We have heard the report of them: our hands are weakened: anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:21 - What wilt thou say when they shall visit thee, for thou didst teach them lessons for rule against thyself; shall not pangs seize thee as a woman in travail?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:6 - (LXX 37:6) Enquire, and see if a male has born a child? and ask concerning the fear, wherein they shall hold their loins, and look for safety: for I have seen every man, and his hands are on his loins; their faces are turned to paleness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:16 - (LXX 27:16) Utterly destroy seed out of Babylon, and him that holds a sickle in time of harvest: for fear of the Grecian sword, they shall return every one to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24 - Son of man, they that inhabit the desolate places on the land of Israel say, Abraam was one, and he possessed the land: and we are more numerous; to us the land is given for a possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:18 - which shall be taken away; and the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess it for ever and ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:22 - until the Ancient of days came, and he gave judgment to the saints of the Most High; and the time came on, and the saints possessed the kingdom.
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