# κατέχω (katechō)

Strong’s G2722. 18 New Testament occurrences.

(a) I hold fast, bind, arrest, (b) I take possession of, lay hold of, (c) I hold back, detain, restrain, (d) I hold a ship, keep its head.

Lexicon: Dodson, public domain.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/greek/katecho-g2722

## Occurrences

- [Luke 4:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/4/42) — And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from the…
- [Luke 8:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/8/15) — But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
- [Luke 14:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/14/9) — And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
- [John 5:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/john/5/4) — For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made who…
- [Acts 27:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/acts/27/40) — And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made t…
- [Romans 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/romans/1/18) — For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
- [Romans 7:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/romans/7/6) — But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
- [1 Corinthians 7:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-corinthians/7/30) — And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
- [1 Corinthians 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-corinthians/11/2) — Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
- [1 Corinthians 15:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-corinthians/15/2) — By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
- [2 Corinthians 6:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-corinthians/6/10) — As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
- [1 Thessalonians 5:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-thessalonians/5/21) — Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
- [2 Thessalonians 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-thessalonians/2/6) — And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
- [2 Thessalonians 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-thessalonians/2/7) — For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
- [Philemon 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/philemon/1/13) — Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
- [Hebrews 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/3/6) — But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
- [Hebrews 3:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/3/14) — For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
- [Hebrews 10:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/10/23) — Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)