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Koine Greek wordlink #137246

SR GNT 2Th 2:6 κατέχον (kateⱪon) ‘and now the thing restraining you_all have known in_order that’ Strongs=27220 Lemma=kateχō
Word role=verb mood=participle tense=present voice=active case=accusative gender=neuter number=singular

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Only use of identical word form κατέχον (V-PPA.ANS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘κατέχον’ (V-PPA.ANS) is always and only glossed as ‘restraining’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘kateχō’ have 12 different glosses: ‘are keeping it’, ‘be keeping’, ‘to_be keeping’, ‘they were keeping’, ‘they were restraining’, ‘we may retain’, ‘we may_be retaining’, ‘we were_being kept’, ‘you_all are keeping’, ‘keeping’, ‘restraining’, ‘restraining it’.

Greek words (4) other than κατέχον (V-PPA.ANS) with a gloss related to ‘restraining’

YHN 20:23 κρατῆτε (krataʸte) V-SPA2..P Lemma=krateō ‘to them if of any you_all may_be restraining they have_been restrained’ SR GNT Yhn 20:23 word 18

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

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

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

Key: V=verb IIA3..P=indicative,imperfect,active,3rd person plural PPA.ANS=participle,present,active,accusative,neuter,singular PPA.GMP=participle,present,active,genitive,masculine,plural PPA.NMS=participle,present,active,nominative,masculine,singular SPA2..P=subjunctive,present,active,2nd person plural