κρατέω krateō

Greek word for “to grasp/seize” · Strong’s G2902 · used 47 times in 46 verses

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Meaning

κρατέω, -ῶ; (κράτος);

How it is translated

Glosses given for krateō in context, with how often each is used:

• seized 5
• holding 4
• having seized 3
• do hold fast 3
• took hold 2
• lay hold 2
• do seize 2
• did seize 2
• having taken hold 2
• seize 2
• having taken 2
• held 2

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Matthew 26 (5), Mark 14 (5), Revelation 2 (5), Mark 7 (3), Mark 9 (2), Matthew 9 (1), Matthew 12 (1), Matthew 14 (1), Matthew 18 (1), Matthew 21 (1)

Forms

• κρατήσας 6
• κρατῆσαι 4
• ἐκράτησαν 4
• ἐκράτησεν 3
• κρατήσαντες 3
• κρατήσατε 3
• κρατοῦντας 3
• ἐκρατήσατέ 2
• κρατεῖτε 2
• κρατῶν 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with krateō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• χείρ cheir “hand” 8
• ἐγείρω egeirō “to arise” 6
• παράδοσις paradosis “tradition” 3
• ἀποκτείνω apokteinō “to kill” 4
• διδάσκω didaskō “to teach” 4
• ἀφίημι aphiēmi “to release” 4
• δέω deō “to bind” 3
• ἄν an “if” 4
• ὄχλος ochlos “crowd” 4
• Ἡρωδιάς Hērōdias “Herodias” 2
• ἱερόν hieros “temple” 3
• κοράσιον korasion “girl” 2

Key verses

The verses using krateō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Mark 12:12 — And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.
• Mark 14:1 — After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put…
• Acts 2:24 — Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
• Colossians 2:19 — And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
• Hebrews 4:14 — Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
• Hebrews 6:18 — That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope…
• Revelation 2:1 — Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven…
• Revelation 2:13 — I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein…
• Revelation 2:14 — But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the…
• Revelation 3:11 — Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
• Revelation 7:1 — And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the…
• Revelation 20:2 — And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.