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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 Box Gen 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:8 - And I will give the entire land of Canaan, where you now live as a foreigner, to you and your descendants. It will be their possession forever, and I will be their God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:11 - So Joseph assigned the best land of Egypt—the region of Rameses—to his father and his brothers, and he settled them there, just as Pharaoh had commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4 - He said to me, ‘I will make you fruitful, and I will multiply your descendants. I will make you a multitude of nations. And I will give this land of Canaan to your descendants[fn] after you as an everlasting possession.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:24 - “With every purchase of land you must grant the seller the right to buy it back.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25 - If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell some family land, then a close relative should buy it back for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:27 - he then has the right to redeem it from the one who bought it. The price of the land will be discounted according to the number of years until the next Year of Jubilee. In this way the original owner can then return to the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:28 - But if the original owner cannot afford to buy back the land, it will remain with the new owner until the next Year of Jubilee. In the jubilee year, the land must be returned to the original owners so they can return to their family land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:32 - “The Levites always have the right to buy back a house they have sold within the towns allotted to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:33 - And any property that is sold by the Levites—all houses within the Levitical towns—must be returned in the Year of Jubilee. After all, the houses in the towns reserved for the Levites are the only property they own in all Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:34 - The open pastureland around the Levitical towns may never be sold. It is their permanent possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:41 - At that time he and his children will no longer be obligated to you, and they will return to their clans and go back to the land originally allotted to their ancestors.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - You may also purchase the children of temporary residents who live among you, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:16 - “If someone dedicates to the LORD a piece of his family property, its value will be assessed according to the amount of seed required to plant it—fifty shekels of silver for a field planted with five bushels of barley seed.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:21 - When the field is released in the Year of Jubilee, it will be holy, a field specially set apart[fn] for the LORD. It will become the property of the priests.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:22 - “If someone dedicates to the LORD a field he has purchased but which is not part of his family property,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:24 - In the Year of Jubilee the field must be returned to the person from whom he purchased it, the one who inherited it as family property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 - “However, anything specially set apart for the LORD—whether a person, an animal, or family property—must never be sold or bought back. Anything devoted in this way has been set apart as holy, and it belongs to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:2 - “Send out men to explore the land of Canaan, the land I am giving to the Israelites. Send one leader from each of the twelve ancestral tribes.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:4 - Why should the name of our father disappear from his clan just because he had no sons? Give us property along with the rest of our relatives.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:7 - “The claim of the daughters of Zelophehad is legitimate. You must give them a grant of land along with their father’s relatives. Assign them the property that would have been given to their father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:12 - One day the LORD said to Moses, “Climb one of the mountains east of the river,[fn] and look out over the land I have given the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:5 - If we have found favor with you, please let us have this land as our property instead of giving us land across the Jordan River.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:22 - then you may return when the LORD has conquered the land. You will have fulfilled your duty to the LORD and to the rest of the people of Israel. And the land on the east side of the Jordan will be your property from the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29 - He said, “The men of Gad and Reuben who are armed for battle must cross the Jordan with you to fight for the LORD. If they do, give them the land of Gilead as their property when the land is conquered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32 - We will cross the Jordan into Canaan fully armed to fight for the LORD, but our property will be here on this side of the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:54

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54 - You must distribute the land among the clans by sacred lot and in proportion to their size. A larger portion of land will be allotted to each of the larger clans, and a smaller portion will be allotted to each of the smaller clans. The decision of the sacred lot is final. In this way, the portions of land will be divided among your ancestral tribes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites from their property certain towns to live in, along with the surrounding pasturelands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - These towns will come from the property of the people of Israel. The larger tribes will give more towns to the Levites, while the smaller tribes will give fewer. Each tribe will give property in proportion to the size of its land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28 - The slayer should have stayed inside the city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the slayer may return to his own property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3 - But if they marry men from another tribe, their grants of land will go with them to the tribe into which they marry. In this way, the total area of our tribal land will be reduced.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:49

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:49 - “Go to Moab, to the mountains east of the river,[fn] and climb Mount Nebo, which is across from Jericho. Look out across the land of Canaan, the land I am giving to the people of Israel as their own special possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:12 - But the open fields beyond the town and the surrounding villages were given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 21:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:41 - The total number of towns and pasturelands within Israelite territory given to the Levites came to forty-eight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:4 - And now the LORD your God has given the other tribes rest, as he promised them. So go back home to the land that Moses, the servant of the LORD, gave you as your possession on the east side of the Jordan River.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:9 - So the men of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the rest of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan. They started the journey back to their own land of Gilead, the territory that belonged to them according to the LORD’s command through Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:19 - “If you need the altar because the land you possess is defiled, then join us in the LORD’s land, where the Tabernacle of the LORD is situated, and share our land with us. But do not rebel against the LORD or against us by building an altar other than the one true altar of the LORD our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:33 - and their surrounding villages as far away as Baalath.[fn] This was their territory, and these names are listed in their genealogical records.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 7:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:28 - The descendants of Ephraim lived in the territory that included Bethel and its surrounding towns to the south, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its surrounding villages to the north as far as Ayyah and its towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:2 - The first of the exiles to return to their property in their former towns were priests, Levites, Temple servants, and other Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:2 - Then he addressed the entire assembly of Israel as follows: “If you approve and if it is the will of the LORD our God, let us send messages to all the Israelites throughout the land, including the priests and Levites in their towns and pasturelands. Let us invite them to come and join us.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 11:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:14 - The Levites even abandoned their pasturelands and property and moved to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons would not allow them to serve the LORD as priests.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:3 - Here is a list of the names of the provincial officials who came to live in Jerusalem. (Most of the people, priests, Levites, Temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants continued to live in their own homes in the various towns of Judah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:8 - Only ask, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance,
the whole earth as your possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:24 - “Son of man, the scattered remnants of Judah living among the ruined cities keep saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he gained possession of the entire land. We are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:2 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Your enemies have taunted you, saying, ‘Aha! Now the ancient heights belong to us!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:3 - Therefore, son of man, give the mountains of Israel this message from the Sovereign LORD: Your enemies have attacked you from all directions, making you the property of many nations and the object of much mocking and slander.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:5 - This is what the Sovereign LORD says: My jealous anger burns against these nations, especially Edom, because they have shown utter contempt for me by gleefully taking my land for themselves as plunder.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:12 - I will cause my people to walk on you once again, and you will be their territory. You will never again rob them of their children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:28 - “The priests will not have any property or possession of land, for I alone am their special possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:5 - The strip of sacred land next to it, also 8⅓ miles long and 3⅓ miles wide, will be a living area for the Levites who work at the Temple. It will be their possession and a place for their towns.[fn]

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