katechō · hold fast, hold back

What it means

katechō (κατέχω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “hold fast, hold back”.

Hold fast, keep; also hold back, restrain, or take possession of.

How to say it

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

1. To cling firmly to something.
2. To own something.
3. To hold someone back, not let them go on.
4. To steer a ship toward a place.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• hold fast ×5
• hold it fast ×1
• keep ×1
• one who restrains ×1
• possess ×1
• possessing ×1
• suppress ×1
• take ×1
• they made ×1
• we hold ×1
• others ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Luke×3
• Acts×1
• Romans×2
• 1 Corinthians×3
• 2 Corinthians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• 2 Thessalonians×2
• Philemon×1
• Hebrews×3

• Luke 4:42

  And when day came, he went out and went to a deserted place; and the crowds were searching for him, and they came to him and were holding him back so that he would not go away from them.

• Luke 8:15

  But that in the good soil, these are the ones who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, hold it fast and bear fruit with perseverance.

• Luke 14:9

  and the one who invited you and him will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the last place.

• Acts 27:40

  And casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes of the rudders; and hoisting the foresail to the blowing wind, they made for the beach.

• Romans 1:18

  For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by unrighteousness,

• Romans 7:6

  But now we have been released from the law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we serve as slaves in newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

• 1 Corinthians 7:30

  and those who weep as though they did not weep, and those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, and those who buy as though they did not possess,

• 1 Corinthians 11:2

  Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold fast the traditions just as I handed them on to you.

• 1 Corinthians 15:2

  through which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the word in which I proclaimed it to you, unless you believed in vain.

• 2 Corinthians 6:10

  as grieving yet always rejoicing; as poor yet making many rich; as having nothing and yet possessing everything.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:21

  but test all things; hold fast what is good.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:6

  And now you know what restrains him, so that he may be revealed in his own time.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:7

  For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only the one who restrains does so now until he is taken out of the way.

• Philemon 1:13

  I wanted to keep him with me, so that on behalf of you he might serve me in the chains of the good news;

• Hebrews 3:6

  but the Messiah was faithful as a Son over his house; and that house we are, if we hold fast the boldness and the boast of our hope.

• Hebrews 3:14

  For we have become sharers in the Messiah, if indeed we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

• Hebrews 10:23

  Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for the one who promised is faithful.