UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Notes: Ownership usually entails to a greater or lesser degree the social sanctions of the right by the owner to use the object in question and the obligation by non-owners to recognize that right and to desist from such usage.; This meaning of have/possess contrasts with hold, grasp (Domain 18), the whole/part relation (Domain 63), to be in a relationship to (Domain 89), to be in a state or condition (Domain 13), and to have authority, power, or control over persons or objects, either sociologically or physically (Domain 37).

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: κατάσχεσις; -εως

Related lemmas: ἔχω

Sense 1: to have, to own, to possess, to belong to

Semantic entry: 57.1

Semantic domains: Possess, Transfer, Exchange

Subdomains: Have, Possess, Property, Owner

Definition: to have or possess objects or property (in the technical sense of having control over the use of such objects){N:001}{N:002}

ACT 7:5: RV ACT 7:5 · LV ACT 7:5 · Read together ACT 7:5

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OET-RV ACT 7:5

5 Avraham hadn’t received any land here as an inheritance, in fact he’d never been near this land and nor did he have any children, yet God promised to give this entire country to him and his descendants.

OET-LV ACT 7:5

5 And not gave to _him an_inheritance in it, nor the_tribunal of_a_foot, but he _promised to _give to _him for a_possession it, and to _the descendants of _him after him, not being to _him a_child.

Sense 2: to take possession, to obtain

Semantic entry: 57.57

Semantic domains: Possess, Transfer, Exchange

Subdomains: Take, Obtain, Gain, Lose

Definition: the act of taking possession of something

ACT 7:45: RV ACT 7:45 · LV ACT 7:45 · Read together ACT 7:45

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OET-RV ACT 7:45

45 Our ancestors then carried that tent into the land, having inherited it along with Yehoshua (Joshua) from the possession of the pagans which God drove out ahead of them. The tent remained there until the time of David

OET-LV ACT 7:45

45 which also the fathers of _us they _brought _in, having _inherited with Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) in the possession of _the nations, whom the god drove _out from the_face of _the fathers of _us, until the days of _Dawid/(Dāvid),

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

κατάσχεσις

Form 1

Sense 1: to have, to own, to possess, to belong to

Sense 2: to take possession, to obtain