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: verb

Inflections: κατέχω; aor.subj.; κατάσχω

Related lemmas: ἔχω

Sense 1: to prevent, to hinder, to restrain, to keep from

Semantic entry: 13.150

Semantic domains: Be, Become, Exist, Happen

Subdomains: Happen

Definition: to prevent someone from doing something by restraining or hindering

ROM 1:18: RV ROM 1:18 · LV ROM 1:18 · Read together ROM 1:18

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18 God’s severe anger is being revealed from heaven on the ungodliness and disobedience of people who limit the truth by their disobedience,

OET-LV ROM 1:18

18 For/Because is _being _revealed the_severe _anger of_god from heaven, on all ungodliness and unrighteousness of _people, which the truth by unrighteousness restraining,

TH2 2:6: RV TH2 2:6 · LV TH2 2:6 · Read together TH2 2:6

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6 Now you know what’s restraining him so that he’ll be revealed at the proper time,

OET-LV TH2 2:6

6 And now the thing restraining you _all _have _known, in _order that to _be _revealed him in the of _him time.

All 4 recorded passages for this sense

ROM: RV ROM 1:18 · LV ROM 1:18 · Read together ROM 1:18

TH2: RV TH2 2:6–7 · LV TH2 2:6–7 · Read together TH2 2:6–7

PHM: RV PHM 1:13 · LV PHM 1:13 · Read together PHM 1:13

Sense 2: to continue to believe and practice, to continue to follow

Semantic entry: 31.48

Semantic domains: Hold a View, Believe, Trust

Subdomains: Believe To Be True

Definition: to continue to believe, with the implication of acting in accordance with such belief

LUK 8:15: RV LUK 8:15 · LV LUK 8:15 · Read together LUK 8:15

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15 But the seeds in the good soil are those good people with good hearts and after hearing the message, they follow it, and produce fruit from their endurance.

OET-LV LUK 8:15

15 But the seed in the good soil, these are the _ones who in a_heart good and good, having _heard the message are _keeping it, and are _bearing _fruit by endurance.

CO1 11:2: RV CO1 11:2 · LV CO1 11:2 · Read together CO1 11:2

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2 Now I commend you all because you always think of what I teach and do, and because you carefully believe and do what I taught you all,

OET-LV CO1 11:2

2 And I _am _praising you _all that all things of _me you _all _have _remembered, and as I _gave _over to _you _all the traditions you _all _are _keeping.

All 5 recorded passages for this sense

LUK: RV LUK 8:15 · LV LUK 8:15 · Read together LUK 8:15

CO1: RV CO1 11:2 · RV CO1 15:2 · LV CO1 11:2 · LV CO1 15:2 · Read together CO1 11:2 · Read together CO1 15:2

TH1: RV TH1 5:21 · LV TH1 5:21 · Read together TH1 5:21

HEB: RV HEB 10:23 · LV HEB 10:23 · Read together HEB 10:23

Sense 3: 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}

CO1 7:30: RV CO1 7:30 · LV CO1 7:30 · Read together CO1 7:30

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30 Those who are mourning should act as if they’re not, those who are celebrating should act as if they’re not, and those who are buying act as if they don’t own anything,

OET-LV CO1 7:30

30 and the ones weeping, as not weeping, and the ones rejoicing, as not rejoicing, and the ones buying, as not keeping,

CO2 6:10: RV CO2 6:10 · LV CO2 6:10 · Read together CO2 6:10

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10 regarded as sad but always happy, as poor but making many people rich, as having nothing but possessing everything.

OET-LV CO2 6:10

10 as being _sorrowed but always rejoicing, as poor but many making _rich, as nothing having and _yet all things keeping.

All 4 recorded passages for this sense

CO1: RV CO1 7:30 · LV CO1 7:30 · Read together CO1 7:30

CO2: RV CO2 6:10 · LV CO2 6:10 · Read together CO2 6:10

HEB: RV HEB 3:6 · RV HEB 3:14 · LV HEB 3:6 · LV HEB 3:14 · Read together HEB 3:6 · Read together HEB 3:14

Sense 4: to control, to restrain

Semantic entry: 37.17

Semantic domains: Control, Rule

Subdomains: Control, Restrain

Definition: to exercise continuous control over someone or something

Notes: There is usually no difficulty in speaking of ‘control’ if it is performed by a person as in RV PE1 2:13 · LV PE1 2:13 · Read together PE1 2:13. However, it may not be possible to speak of ‘death’ having control, unless the language in question can personify death. In some instances RV ACT 2:24 · LV ACT 2:24 · Read together ACT 2:24 (see 37.16: κρατέω) must be rendered as ‘it was impossible for him to continue to be dead,’ and in RV CO2 5:14 · LV CO2 5:14 · Read together CO2 5:14 ‘Christ’s love controls us’ may be rendered as ‘the fact that Christ loves us causes us to act as we do.’

LUK 4:42: RV LUK 4:42 · LV LUK 4:42 · Read together LUK 4:42

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42 The next day, Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) went off to a quiet place, but the crowds were looking for him and followed after him and insisted that he didn’t leave them,

OET-LV LUK 4:42

42 And having _become day, having _come _out he _was _gone into a_desolate place, and the crowds were _seeking _after him, and they _came up _to him, and they _were _restraining him which to_ not _be _going from them.

ROM 7:6: RV ROM 7:6 · LV ROM 7:6 · Read together ROM 7:6

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6 but now that we’re released from the law which held us—released by dying to it—we can serve in new ways guided by the spirit instead of by the letter of the law.

OET-LV ROM 7:6

6 But right _now we _were _released from the law, having _died _off in which we _were _being _kept, so _that to _be _serving us in newness of_spirit, and not in _oldness of _letter.

Sense 5: to come to be in a place, to occupy

Semantic entry: 85.9

Semantic domains: Existence in Space

Subdomains: Be in a Place

Definition: to come to occupy a particular place

LUK 14:9: RV LUK 14:9 · LV LUK 14:9 · Read together LUK 14:9

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9 and then your host might come over to you and ask you to let the other guest sit where you were, and then you might end up humiliated at the bottom of the table.

OET-LV LUK 14:9