κρατέω; imperfect 2 person plural ἐκρατειτε, Mar 14:49 Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading; future κρατήσω; 1 aorist ἐκράτησα; perfect infinitive κεκρατηκέναι; passive, present κρατοῦμαι; imperfect ἐκρατουμην; perfect 3 person plural κεκράτηνται; (κράτος (which see)); the Sept. chiefly for çÈæÇ÷, also for àÈçÇæ (to seize), etc.; from Homer down;

1. to have power, be powerful; to be chief, be master of, to rule: absolutely for îÈìÇê, Est 1:1; 1Es 4:38; ὁ κρατῶν, Wis 14:19; οἱ κρατοῦντες, 2Ma 4:50; τίνος, to be ruler of one, Pro 16:32; Pro 17:2 (for îÈùÇÑì); Wis 3:8; never so in the N. T.

2. to get possession of; i. e.

a. to become master of, to obtain: τῆς προθέσεως, Act 27:13 ((Diodorus Siculus 16, 20; others) cf. Buttmann, 161 (140); on the tense, Winers Grammar, 334 (313)).

b. to take bold of: τῆς χειρός τίνος (cf. Winers Grammar, § 30, 8 d.; Buttmann, as above), Mat 9:25; Mar 1:31; Mar 5:41; Mar 9:27 L T Tr WH; Luk 8:54; τινα τῆς χειρός, to take one by the hand, Mar 9:27 R G, cf. Matthiae, § 331; τινα, to hold one fast in order not to be sent away, Act 3:11, cf. Meyer at the passage; τούς πόδας τίνος, to embrace one’s knees, Mat 28:9; tropically, τόν λόγον, to lay hold of mentally (cf. our ’catch at’; but others refer this example to 3 b. below), Mar 9:10 (join πρός ἑαυτούς with συζητοῦντες).

c. to lay hold of, take, seize: τινα, to lay hands on one in order to get him into one’s power, Mat 14:3; Mat 18:28; Mat 21:46; Mat 22:6; Mat 26:4; Mat 26:48; Mat 26:50; Mat 26:55; Mat 26:57; Mar 3:21; Mar 6:17; Mar 12:12; Mar 14:1; Mar 14:44; Mar 14:46; Mar 14:49; Mar 14:51; Act 24:6; Rev 20:2; (2Sa 6:6; Psa 136:9 ()); τί, Mat 12:11.

3. to hold; i. e.

a. to hold in the hand: τί ἐν τῇ δεξιά, Rev 2:1 (τῇ ἀριστερά τόν ἄρτον, Plutarch, mor., p. 99 d.).

b. to hold fast, i. e. tropically, not to discard or let go; to keep carefully and faithfully: ὁ ἔχετε, ἔχεις, Rev 2:25; Rev 3:11; τό ὄνομα μου, Rev 2:13; one’s authority, τήν κεφαλήν, i. e. ἐκεῖνον ὅς ἐστιν ἡ κεφαλή, Christ, Col 2:19; τήν παράδοσιν, Mark 7:3f, 8; τάς παραδόσεις, 2Th 2:15; τήν διδαχήν, Rev 2:14 f; also with a genitive of the thing, of blessings in which different individuals are participants: τῆς ὁμολογίας, Heb 4:14; τῆς ἐλπίδος, Heb 6:18 (others refer this example to 2 above) (cf. 2Sa 3:6).

c. to continue to hold, to retain: of death continuing to hold one, passive Act 2:24; τάς ἁμαρτίας (opposed to ἀφίημι), to retain sins, i. e. not to remit, Joh 20:23; to hold in check, restrain: followed by ἵνα μή, Rev 7:1; by τοῦ μή (Winers Grammar, 325 (305); Buttmann, § 140, 16 β.), Luk 24:16. On the construction of this verb with the genitive and accusative, cf. Matthiae, § 359f; Winers Grammar, § 30, 8 d.; Buttmann, 161 (140).