Strong's Lexicon
G2722 — κατέχω
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G2722 |
|---|---|
| Word: | κατέχω |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | from G2596 and G2192 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 17 |
| Transliteration: | katecho |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | kat-ekh'-o |
| Meaning: | 1. to hold down (hold fast), in various applications {literally or figuratively} |
| KJV Renderings: | have, hold (fast), keep (in memory), let, X make toward, possess, retain, seize on, stay, take, withhold |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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, Luk 4:42 (Buttmann, § 140, 16 β.; cf. Winer’s Grammar, 604 (561)); τινα πρός ἐμαυτόν, Phm 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, Joh 5:4 (G T Tr WH omit the passage); ἐν τίνι, Rom 7:6.
b. to restrain, hinder (the course or progress of): τήν ἀλήθειαν ἐν ἀδικία, Rom 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, cheeks, namely, the advent of Antichrist, denotes the one in whom that power is lodged, the Roman emperor: 2Th 2:6 f (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, Act 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 from possession of: with the accusative of the thing, τόν λόγον, Luk 8:15; followed by the orat. obliq., 1Co 15:2 (Buttmann, §§ 139,58; 150, 20; Winer’s Grammar, 561 (522)); τάς παραδόσεις, 1Co 11:2; τό καλόν, 1Th 5:21; τήν παρρησίαν (τήν ἀρχήν etc.) μέχρι τέλους βεβαίαν κατασχεῖν, Heb 3:6; Heb 3:14; τήν ὁμολογίαν τῆς ἐλπίδος ἀκλινῆ, Hebrews 10:23. 2. equivalent to Latinobtinere, i. e.
a. to get possession of, take: Mat 21:38 R G; Luk 14:9.
b. to possess: 1Co 7:30; 2Co 6:10.
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Englishman's Greek Concordance
κατέχω (have)
Matthew 21:38
- KJV: But when the husbandmen saw the son they said among themselves This is the heir come let us kill him and let us seize on his inheritance
- GK: οι δε γεωργοί ιδόντες τον υιόν είπον εν εαυτοίς ούτός εστιν ο κληρονόμος δεύτε αποκτείνωμεν αυτόν και κατάσχωμεν την κληρονομίαν αυτού
Luke 4:42
- KJV: And when it was day he departed and went into a desert place and the people sought him and came unto him and stayed him that he should not depart from them
- GK: γενομένης δε ημέρας εξελθών επορεύθη εις έρημον τόπον και οι όχλοι εζήτουν αυτόν και ήλθον έως αυτού και κατείχον αυτόν του μη πορεύεσθαι απ΄ αυτών
Luke 8:15
- KJV: But that on the good ground are they which in an honest and good heart having heard the word keep and bring forth fruit with patience
- GK: το εν τη καλή γη ούτοί εισιν οίτινες εν καρδία καλή και αγαθή ακούσαντες τον λόγον κατέχουσι και καρποφορούσιν εν υπομονή
Luke 14:9
- KJV: And he that bade thee and him come say to thee Give this man place and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room
- GK: και ελθών ο σε και αυτόν καλέσας ερεί σοι δος τούτω τόπον και τότε άρξη μετ΄ αισχύνης τον έσχατον τόπον κατέχειν
John 5:4
- KJV: For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had
- GK: άγγελος γαρ κατά καιρόν κατέβαινεν εν τη κολυμβήθρα και ετάρασσε το ύδωρ ο ουν πρώτος εμβάς μετά την ταραχήν του ύδατος υγιής εγίνετο ω δήποτε κατείχετο νοσήματι
Acts 27:40
- KJV: And when they had taken up the anchors they committed unto the sea and loosed the rudder bands and hoised up the mainsail to the wind and made toward shore
- GK: και τας αγκύρας περιελόντες είων εις την θάλασσαν άμα ανέντες τας ζευκτηρίας των πηδαλίων και επάραντες τον αρτεμώνα τη πνεούση κατείχον εις τον αιγιαλόν
Romans 1:18
- KJV: For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness
- GK: αποκαλύπτεται γαρ οργή θεού απ΄ ουρανού επί πάσαν ασέβειαν και αδικίαν ανθρώπων των την αλήθειαν εν αδικία κατεχόντων
Romans 7:6
- KJV: But now we are delivered from the law that being dead wherein we were held that we should serve in newness of spirit and not the oldness of the letter
- GK: νυνί δε κατηργήθημεν από του νόμου αποθανόντες εν ω κατειχόμεθα ώστε δουλεύειν ημάς εν καινότητι πνεύματος και ου παλαιότητι γράμματος
1 Corinthians 7:30
- KJV: And they that weep as though they wept not and they that rejoice as though they rejoiced not and they that buy as though they possessed not
- GK: και οι κλαίοντες ως μη κλαίοντες και οι χαίροντες ως μη χαίροντες και οι αγοράζοντες ως μη κατέχοντες
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