Greek Strong's Lexicon

G2722

Language: 🇧🇶 Papiamentu 🇬🇧 English

Lemma: κατέχω

Transliteration: kat-ekh'-o

Definition: from κατά and ἔχω; to hold down (fast), in various applications (literally or figuratively)

KJV Definition: have, hold (fast), keep (in memory), let, X make toward, possess, retain, seize on, stay, take, withhold

Verse usage

  • Lukas 4:42 NASB
    When day came, Jesus left and went to a secluded place; and the crowds were searching for Him, and came to Him and tried to keep Him from going away from them.
  • Lukas 8:15 NASB
    "But the [seed] in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word in an honest and good heart, and hold it fast, and bear fruit with perseverance.
  • Lukas 14:9 NASB
    and he who invited you both will come and say to you, 'Give [your] place to this man,' and then in disgrace you proceed to occupy the last place.
  • Huan 5:4 NASB
    for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted].
  • Echonan 27:40 NASB
    And casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea while at the same time they were loosening the ropes of the rudders; and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they were heading for the beach.
  • Romanonan 1:18 NASB
    For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
  • Romanonan 7:6 NASB
    But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.
  • 1 Korintionan 7:30 NASB
    and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess;
  • 1 Korintionan 11:2 NASB
    Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.
  • 1 Korintionan 15:2 NASB
    by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.
  • 2 Korintionan 6:10 NASB
    as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing yet possessing all things.
  • 1 Tesalonisensenan 5:21 NASB
    But examine everything [carefully]; hold fast to that which is good;
  • 2 Tesalonisensenan 2:6 NASB
    And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed.
  • 2 Tesalonisensenan 2:7 NASB
    For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains [will do so] until he is taken out of the way.
  • Filemon 1:13 NASB
    whom I wished to keep with me, so that on your behalf he might minister to me in my imprisonment for the gospel;
  • Hebreonan 3:6 NASB
    but Christ [was faithful] as a Son over His house-- whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.
  • Hebreonan 3:14 NASB
    For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end,
  • Hebreonan 10:23 NASB
    Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful;