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Koine Greek wordlink #80708

SR GNT Yhn 20:23 κρατῆτε (krataʸte) ‘to them if of any you_all may_be restraining they have_been restrained’ Strongs=29020 Lemma=krateō
Word role=verb mood=subjunctive tense=present voice=active person=2nd number=plural
Year=33 AD Refers to Word #80657 Referred to from Word #80711

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Only use of identical word form κρατῆτε (V-SPA2··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κρατῆτε’ (V-SPA2··P) is always and only glossed as ‘you_all may_be restraining’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘krateō’ have 28 different glosses: ‘be taking_hold_of’, ‘having apprehended’, ‘having taken_hold’, ‘to apprehend’, ‘to take_hold_of’, ‘to_be taking_hold_of’, ‘to_be_being restrained’, ‘to_have taken_hold’, ‘were_being restrained’, ‘will_be taking_hold_of’, ‘he apprehended’, ‘he took_hold’, ‘they are apprehending’, ‘they have_been restrained’, ‘they may apprehend’, ‘they apprehended’, ‘they took_hold_of’, ‘we may_be taking_hold’, ‘we apprehended’, ‘you are taking_hold_of’, ‘you_all are taking_hold_of’, ‘you_all may_be restraining’, ‘you_all apprehended’, ‘apprehend’, ‘apprehended’, ‘take_hold_of’, ‘taking_hold_of’, ‘took_hold_of’.

Greek words (4) other than κρατῆτε (V-SPA2··P) with a gloss related to ‘restraining’

LUKE 4:42 κατεῖχον (kateiⱪon) V-IIA3··P Lemma=kateχō ‘up_to him and they were restraining him not to_be going’ SR GNT Luke 4:42 word 21

OET-LV: 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. (LUK_4:42)

OET-RV: 42 The next day, Yeshua 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, (LUK 4:42)

ROM 1:18 κατεχόντων (kateⱪontōn) V-PPA·GMP Lemma=kateχō ‘truth by unrighteousness restraining’ SR GNT Rom 1:18 word 18

OET-LV: 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, (ROM_1:18)

OET-RV: 18 God’s severe anger is being revealed from heaven on the ungodliness and disobedience of people who limit the truth by their disobedience (ROM 1:18)

2 TH 2:6 κατέχον (kateⱪon) V-PPA·ANS Lemma=kateχō ‘and now the thing restraining you_all have known in_order that’ SR GNT 2 Th 2:6 word 4

OET-LV: 6 And now the thing restraining you _all _have _known, in _order that to _be _revealed him in the of _him time. (TH2_2:6)

OET-RV: 6 Now you know what’s restraining him so that he’ll be revealed at the proper time, (TH2 2:6)

2 TH 2:7 κατέχων (kateⱪōn) V-PPA·NMS Lemma=kateχō ‘of lawlessness only the one restraining it now there_is until out_of’ SR GNT 2 Th 2:7 word 11

OET-LV: 7 For/Because the mystery already is _working of_ the _lawlessness, only the one restraining it now there _is, until out _of the_midst it _may _become. (TH2_2:7)

OET-RV: 7 because the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, except that it’s being restrained until he’s taken out of the middle, (TH2 2:7)

Key: V=verb