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True Words Baptist Church — Revelation 21:5
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ORIGINAL WORD · STRONG’S

κατέχω

G2722 · katéchō · kat-ekh'-o · Greek

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Strong’s definition

to hold down (fast), in various applications (literally or figuratively)

KJV usage

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

20mapped occurrences
19verses
16KJV renderings
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KJV renderings in this mapping

fast 3keep 2hold 2let us seize 1stayed 1to take 1had 1made 1held 1possessed 1memory 1possessing 1withholdeth 1who 1letteth 1retained 1

Strong’s is a useful concordance and lexical reference layer. It does not by itself determine the meaning of a word in every context and is not a substitute for the verse, passage, or full grammatical analysis. Hebrew / Aramaic XML data: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0).

Mapped occurrences

Matthew 21:38Mapped KJV word: let us seize

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.

Luke 4:42Mapped KJV word: stayed

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.

Luke 8:15Mapped KJV word: keep

But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Luke 14:9Mapped KJV word: to take

And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.

John 5:4Mapped KJV word: had

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.

Acts 27:40Mapped KJV word: made

And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.

Romans 1:18Mapped KJV word: hold

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

Romans 7:6Mapped KJV word: held

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 in the oldness of the letter.

1 Corinthians 7:30Mapped KJV word: possessed

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;

1 Corinthians 11:2Mapped KJV word: keep

Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

1 Corinthians 15:2Mapped KJV word: memory

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

2 Corinthians 6:10Mapped KJV word: possessing

As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

2 Thessalonians 2:6Mapped KJV word: withholdeth

And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

2 Thessalonians 2:7Mapped KJV word: who

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

2 Thessalonians 2:7Mapped KJV word: letteth

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

Philemon 1:13Mapped KJV word: retained

Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

Hebrews 3:6Mapped KJV word: fast

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

Hebrews 3:14Mapped KJV word: hold

For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

Hebrews 10:23Mapped KJV word: fast

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)