Definition

to hold (used in very various applications, literally or figuratively, direct or remote; such as possession; ability, contiuity, relation, or condition)

Etymology

a primary verb;

Where the KJV renders it

• be (able
• X hold
• possessed with)
• accompany
• + begin to amend
• can(+ -not)
• X conceive
• count
• diseased
• do + eat
• + enjoy
• + fear
• following
• have
• hold
• keep
• + lack
• + go to law
• lie
• + must needs
• + of necessity
• + need
• next
• + recover
• + reign
• + rest
• + return
• X sick
• take for
• + tremble
• + uncircumcised
• use

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.