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κατισχύω

Strong’s: G2729

Associated OET lemmas: κατισχύω

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Related lemmas: ἰσχύω

Sense 1: to be completely able, to be fully able

Semantic entry: 74.10

Semantic domains: Able, Capable

Definition: to be completely capable of doing or experiencing something

Notes: For another interpretation of κατισχύω in RV LUK 21:36 · LV LUK 21:36 · Read together LUK 21:36, see 79.64: ἰσχύω / 79.64: κατισχύω.

LUK 21:36: RV LUK 21:36 · LV LUK 21:36 · Read together LUK 21:36

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OET-RV LUK 21:36

36 No matter what the season, stay alert, asking God that you’ll all have the strength to escape all those things going to happen, and at the end to be able to stand in front of the son of humanity.”

OET-LV LUK 21:36

36 Be _watching and at every season, beseeching that you _all _may _prevail to _escape all these things which going to _be _becoming, and to _be _stood before the son of_ the _Man.

Sense 2: to be strong enough to, to be able to, to have the strength to

Semantic entry: 79.64

Semantic domains: Features of Objects

Subdomains: Strong, Weak

Definition: to be physically strong enough for some purpose

Notes: For another interpretation of κατισχύω in RV LUK 21:36 · LV LUK 21:36 · Read together LUK 21:36, see 74.10: ἐξισχύω / 74.10: κατισχύω.

LUK 21:36: RV LUK 21:36 · LV LUK 21:36 · Read together LUK 21:36

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OET-RV LUK 21:36

36 No matter what the season, stay alert, asking God that you’ll all have the strength to escape all those things going to happen, and at the end to be able to stand in front of the son of humanity.”

OET-LV LUK 21:36

36 Be _watching and at every season, beseeching that you _all _may _prevail to _escape all these things which going to _be _becoming, and to _be _stood before the son of_ the _Man.

LUK 23:23: RV LUK 23:23 · LV LUK 23:23 · Read together LUK 23:23

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OET-RV LUK 23:23

23 But they kept loudly insisting that he be executed on a post, and the yelling of the crowd was strong enough to convince Pilatos,

OET-LV LUK 23:23

23 And they were _imposing with_ loud _voices, requesting him to _be _executed _on _a _stake, and the voices of _them.
were _prevailing.

Sense 3: to defeat, to prevail over

Semantic entry: 39.56

Semantic domains: Hostility, Strife

Subdomains: Conquer

Definition: to prevail over something or some person so as to be able to defeat, with the implication that the successful participant has greater strength

Notes: In some languages it may be impossible to personify ‘death’ and thus make it an agent of ‘defeating.’ However, it is possible to retain some of the figurative meaning involved, at least in some languages, by translating ‘and my church will never die out’ or ‘and my church will never die.’

MAT 16:18: RV MAT 16:18 · LV MAT 16:18 · Read together MAT 16:18

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OET-RV MAT 16:18

18 And I can add that you’re Kefa (meaning ‘rock’), and I’ll build my assembly on that rock, and hell’s gates won’t be able to hold it back.

OET-LV MAT 16:18

18 And also _I am _saying to _you that you are Petros, but on this the rock I _will _be _building the assembly of _me, and the_gates of _Haidaʸs ˓will˒_ not _be _prevailing against _it.