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Lexicon :: Strong's G2697 - kataschesis

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κατάσχεσις
Transliteration
kataschesis (Key)
Pronunciation
kat-as'-khes-is
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Strong’s Definitions

κατάσχεσις katáschesis, kat-as'-khes-is; from G2722; a holding down, i.e. occupancy:—possession.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's G2697 in the following manner: possession (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's G2697 in the following manner: possession (2x).

  1. a holding back, hindering

  2. a holding fast, possession

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κατάσχεσις katáschesis, kat-as'-khes-is; from G2722; a holding down, i.e. occupancy:—possession.
STRONGS G2697:
κατάσχεσις, κατασχέσεως, ἡ (κατέχω), the Sept. often for אֲחֻזָּה, possession;
1. a holding back, hindering: anonymous in Walz, Rhetor. i., p. 616, 20.
2. a holding fast, possession: γῆν δοῦναι εἰς κατάσχεσιν, to give in possession the land, Acts 7:5, as in Genesis 17:8; Deuteronomy 32:49 Alex.; Ezekiel 33:24; Ezekiel 36:2f, 5; Josephus, Antiquities 9, 1, 2; (Test xii. Patr., test. Benj. § 10); with the genitive of the subjunctive τῶν ἐθνῶν, of the territory possessed by (the possession of) the nations, Acts 7:45; (a portion given to keep, Philo, rer. div. haer. § 40 (cf. Psalm 2:8)).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
17:8
Deuteronomy
32:49
Psalms
2:8
Ezekiel
33:24; 36:2; 36:5
Acts
7:5; 7:45

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2697 matches the Greek κατάσχεσις (kataschesis),
which occurs 66 times in 59 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 17:8–Eze 45:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:8 - The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:11 - So Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh directed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4 - and said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:24 - Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25 - “ ‘If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative is to come and redeem what they have sold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:27 - they are to determine the value for the years since they sold it and refund the balance to the one to whom they sold it; they can then go back to their own property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32 - “ ‘The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns, which they possess.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - So the property of the Levites is redeemable—that is, a house sold in any town they hold—and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:34 - But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - Then they and their children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to the property of their ancestors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16 - “ ‘If anyone dedicates to the LORD part of their family land, its value is to be set according to the amount of seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver to a homer[fn] of barley seed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21 - When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it will become priestly property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:22 - “ ‘If anyone dedicates to the LORD a field they have bought, which is not part of their family land,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - In the Year of Jubilee the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, the one whose land it was.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 - “ ‘But nothing that a person owns and devotes[fn] to the LORD—whether a human being or an animal or family land—may be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:2 - “Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:4 - Why should our father’s name disappear from his clan because he had no son? Give us property among our father’s relatives.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7 - “What Zelophehad’s daughters are saying is right. You must certainly give them property as an inheritance among their father’s relatives and give their father’s inheritance to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:12 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain in the Abarim Range and see the land I have given the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:5 - If we have found favor in your eyes,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as our possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:22 - then when the land is subdued before the LORD, you may return and be free from your obligation to the LORD and to Israel. And this land will be your possession before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29 - He said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites, every man armed for battle, cross over the Jordan with you before the LORD, then when the land is subdued before you, you must give them the land of Gilead as their possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32 - We will cross over before the LORD into Canaan armed, but the property we inherit will be on this side of the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54 - Distribute the land by lot, according to your clans. To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one. Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. And give them pasturelands around the towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - The towns you give the Levites from the land the Israelites possess are to be given in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: Take many towns from a tribe that has many, but few from one that has few.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28 - The accused must stay in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest; only after the death of the high priest may they return to their own property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3 - Now suppose they marry men from other Israelite tribes; then their inheritance will be taken from our ancestral inheritance and added to that of the tribe they marry into. And so part of the inheritance allotted to us will be taken away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:49

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:49 - “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, across from Jericho, and view Canaan, the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:12 - But the fields and villages around the city they had given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:41 - The towns of the Levites in the territory held by the Israelites were forty-eight in all, together with their pasturelands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:4 - Now that the LORD your God has given them rest as he promised, return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:9 - So the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in Canaan to return to Gilead, their own land, which they had acquired in accordance with the command of the LORD through Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19 - If the land you possess is defiled, come over to the LORD’s land, where the LORD’s tabernacle stands, and share the land with us. But do not rebel against the LORD or against us by building an altar for yourselves, other than the altar of the LORD our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:33 - and all the villages around these towns as far as Baalath.[fn] These were their settlements. And they kept a genealogical record.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:28 - Their lands and settlements included Bethel and its surrounding villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages all the way to Ayyah and its villages.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:2 - Now the first to resettle on their own property in their own towns were some Israelites, priests, Levites and temple servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:2 - He then said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you and if it is the will of the LORD our God, let us send word far and wide to the rest of our people throughout the territories of Israel, and also to the priests and Levites who are with them in their towns and pasturelands, to come and join us.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:14 - The Levites even abandoned their pasturelands and property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:3 - These are the provincial leaders who settled in Jerusalem (now some Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants and descendants of Solomon’s servants lived in the towns of Judah, each on their own property in the various towns,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:8 - Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24 - “Son of man, the people living in those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as our possession.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:2 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The enemy said of you, “Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession.” ’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:3 - Therefore prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because they ravaged and crushed you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people’s malicious talk and slander,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:5 - this is what the Sovereign LORD says: In my burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, for with glee and with malice in their hearts they made my land their own possession so that they might plunder its pastureland.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:12 - I will cause people, my people Israel, to live on you. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance; you will never again deprive them of their children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:28 - “ ‘I am to be the only inheritance the priests have. You are to give them no possession in Israel; I will be their possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5 - An area 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide will belong to the Levites, who serve in the temple, as their possession for towns to live in.[fn]

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