κατάσχεσις
kataschesis · possession
Greek word · Strong’s number G2697 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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kataschesis (κατάσχεσις) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “possession”.
Land held as one's own.
How to say it
ka·tas·che·sis
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Land one holds as one's own and can leave to one's children.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
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Where it appears
- Acts 7:5
And he did not give him an inheritance in it, not even a foothold; and he promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, when he had no child.
- Acts 7:45
This tent our fathers, having received it in turn, also brought in with Joshua into the possession of the nations whom God drove out before our fathers, until the days of David,