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Koine Greek wordlink #156576

SR GNT Rev 2:25 κρατήσατε (krataʸsate) ‘however what you_all are having take_hold_of until of which I may come’ Strongs=29020 Lemma=krateō
Word role=verb mood=imperative tense=aorist voice=active person=2nd number=plural
Year=96 AD Refers to Word #156545

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Other uses (2) of identical word form κρατήσατε (V-MAA2··P) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κρατήσατε’ (V-MAA2··P) has 2 different glosses: ‘apprehend’, ‘take_hold_of’.

Mark 14:44 ‘I may kiss he it is apprehend him and be leading_away’ SR GNT Mark 14:44 word 17

OET-LV: 44 And the one giving_ him _over had _given a_signal to _them saying: Whomever wishfully I _may _kiss, it _is he, apprehend him, and be _leading _away securely. (MRK_14:44)

OET-RV: 44 Yudas had prearranged a signal with them that anyone who he greeted with a kiss, they should grab that person and lead him away under guard. (MRK 14:44)

Mat 26:48 ‘I may kiss he it is apprehend him’ SR GNT Mat 26:48 word 15

OET-LV: 48 And the one giving _over him, gave to _them a_sign saying: Whomever wishfully I _may _kiss, it _is he, apprehend him. (MAT_26:48)

OET-RV: 48 The one who was turning him in had prearranged a sign that he would kiss the one that they should arrest. (MAT 26:48)

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 (1) other than κρατήσατε (V-MAA2··P) with a gloss related to ‘take_hold_of’

HEB 6:18 κρατῆσαι (krataʸsai) V-NAA···· ‘exhortation we may_be having having taken_refuge to take_hold_of of the lying_before hope’ SR GNT Heb 6:18 word 18

OET-LV: 18 in _order _that by two matters unchangeable, in which impossible it _is to _lie the for_god, strong exhortation we _may _be _having, which having _taken _refuge to _take _hold _of of _the lying _before hope, (HEB_6:18)

OET-RV: 18 so that by two things that God can’t even change (his promise and his oath), we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. (HEB 6:18)

Key: V=verb