STRONGS G2697:
κατάσχεσις,
κατασχέσεως,
ἡ (
κατέχω), the
Sept. often for
אֲחֻזָּה, possession;
1. a holding back, hindering: anonymous in Walz, Rhetor. i., p. 616, 20.
2. a holding fast, possession:
γῆν δοῦναι εἰς κατάσχεσιν, to give in possession the land,
Acts 7:5, as in
Genesis 17:8;
Deuteronomy 32:49 Alex.;
Ezekiel 33:24;
Ezekiel 36:2f,
5;
Josephus, Antiquities 9, 1, 2; (
Test xii. Patr., test. Benj. § 10); with the genitive of the subjunctive
τῶν ἐθνῶν, of the territory possessed by (
the possession of) the nations,
Acts 7:45; (a portion given to keep,
Philo, rer. div. haer. § 40 (cf.
Psalm 2:8)).
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