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Koine Greek wordlink #136308

SR GNT 2 Th 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
Year=54 AD

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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 13 different glosses: ‘are keeping it’, ‘be keeping’, ‘to_be keeping’, ‘were_being kept’, ‘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 17

OET-LV: 23 If of _any you _all _may _forgive the sins, they _have _been _forgiven to _them, if of _any you _all _may _be _restraining, they _have _been _restrained. (JHN_20:23)

OET-RV: 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, then they’ll be forgiven but if you withhold forgiveness, then it will be withheld.” (JHN 20:23)

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

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 ‘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 2:7 κατέχων (kateⱪōn) V-PPA·NMS ‘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