Strong's Number 2902
Transliteration:
krateo
{krat-eh'-o}
Word Origin:
TDNT:
3:910,466
Part of Speech:
verb
Usage in the KJV:
hold 12, take 9, lay hold on 8, hold fast 5, take by 4, lay hold upon 2, lay hand on 2, misc 5
Total: 47
Definition:
- to have power, be powerful
- to be chief, be master of, to rule
- to get possession of
- to become master of, to obtain
- to take hold of
- to take hold of, take, seize
- to lay hands on one in order to get him into one's power
- to hold
- to hold in the hand
- to hold fast, i.e. not discard or let go
- to keep carefully and faithfully
- to continue to hold, to retain
- of death continuing to hold one
- to hold in check, restrain