{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "G2722",
  "lemma": "κατέχω",
  "transliteration": "katéchō",
  "definition": "to hold down (fast), in various applications (literally or figuratively)",
  "kjv": "have, hold (fast), keep (in memory), let, X make toward, possess, retain, seize on…",
  "occurrences": 65,
  "language": "Greek",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "G2596",
      "lemma": "κατά",
      "transliteration": "katá",
      "meaning": "about",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/G2596"
    },
    {
      "id": "G2192",
      "lemma": "ἔχω",
      "transliteration": "échō",
      "meaning": "to hold",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/G2192"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Luke 4:42",
      "text": "When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/4?v=42"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 8:15",
      "text": "Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/8?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 14:9",
      "text": "and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/14?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Acts 27:40",
      "text": "Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/27?v=40"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Romans 1:18",
      "text": "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/1?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Romans 7:6",
      "text": "But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/7?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Corinthians 7:30",
      "text": "and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/7?v=30"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Corinthians 11:2",
      "text": "Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/11?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Corinthians 15:2",
      "text": "by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/15?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Corinthians 6:10",
      "text": "as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/6?v=10"
    }
  ],
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