noun · feminine
kataschesias
Strong’sG2697
a possession
stem kataschesi-2 times in the New Testament2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† κατά-σχεσις, -εως, ἡ
(< κατέχω), [in LXX nearly always for אֲחֻזָּה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2697 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkat-as'-khes-is
a holding down, i.e. occupancy
Fromfrom G2722;
King Jamespossession.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
holding back, restraining, retention, Refs 5th c.BC+.
II possession, LXX+NT
III relation, attitude, Refs.
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kataschesias | kataschesiais |
| object accusative | kataschesian1×κατάσχεσιν | kataschesiain |
| direct address vocative | kataschesiar | kataschesiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kataschesiau | kataschesiaiu |
| to, for dative | kataschesia1×κατασχέσει | kataschesiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
kataschesia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
kataschesian“possession”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 7:5… podou, kai epangeleta dōara auto eis kataschesian autan kai te sperme autou meta …… ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and …
kataschesia“dispossessed”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 7:45… patrois nu meta Iēsu en ta kataschesia teiu ethneiu heiu exōthata tos theos …… it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before …