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Strong's #2697 - κατάσχεσις
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- a holding back, hindering
- a holding fast, possession
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κατά-σχεσις, εως, ἡ,
I holding back, restraining, retention, πνεύματος Hp. Vict. 2.64.
II possession, LXX Leviticus 25:25, Zechariah 11:14, al., Acts 7:5.
III relation, attitude, κ. φιλικὴ πρὸς τῶν πέλας Stoic. 3.24.
κατάσχεσις, κατασχέσεως, ἡ (κατέχω), the Sept. often for אֲחֻזָּה, possession;
1. a holding back, hindering: anonymous in Walz, Rhetor. i., p. 616, 20.
2. a holding fast, possession: γῆν δοῦναι εἰς κατάσχεσιν, to give in possession the land, Acts 7:5, as in Genesis 17:8; Deuteronomy 32:49 Alex.; Ezekiel 33:24; Ezekiel 36:2f, 5; Josephus, Antiquities 9, 1, 2; (Test xii. Patr., test. Benj. § 10); with the genitive of the subjunctive τῶν ἐθνῶν, of the territory possessed by (the possession of) the nations, Acts 7:45; (a portion given to keep, Philo, rer. div. haer. § 40 (cf. Psalm 2:8)).
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† κατά -σχεσις , -εως , ἡ
(< κατέχω ),
[in LXX nearly always for H272]
1. a holding back.
2. LXX and NT, a holding fast, possession: Acts 7:5; Acts 7:45.†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
On the translation of this word in Acts 7:5; Acts 7:45 see Field Notes, pp. 114, 116.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
