'Held' in the Bible
Then Esau held a grudge against Jacob on account of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are coming, then I will kill Jacob my brother."
When three companies blew on the trumpets and broke the jars, they held in their left hand the torches and in their right hand the trumpets for blowing, and they cried, "A sword for Yahweh and for Gideon!"
They went out [into] the field and harvested their vineyards and trod [them], and they {held a festival}. And they went [into] the temple of their god, and they ate and drank and cursed Abimelech.
And Samson reached out and held two of the middle pillars on which the house [was] resting, and he leaned on them, one on his right and one on his left.
And he said, "Bring the cloak that [is] on you and {hold it out}." And she held it out and he measured six [measures of] barley and put it on her [cloak]. Then she went [into] the city.
David answered the priest and said to him, "Indeed, women [were] held back from us {as it has been when I've gone out before}. And the things of the young men are holy when it [is] an ordinary journey. {How much more} {today} will the things be holy?"
Then Solomon awoke, and look, [it was] a dream, and he came [to] Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of [the] Lord, and he offered burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings, and he held a feast for all of his servants.
Its thickness [was] a handbreadth, but its rim [was] as the work on the brim of a cup, [like the] bud of a lily; it held two thousand baths.
Solomon held the festival at that time and all of Israel with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath up to the wadi of Egypt before Yahweh our God, for seven days [and] seven days, [a total of] fourteen days.
With them, he built an altar in the name of Yahweh, and he made a trench {which would have held} about two seahs of seed, all around the altar.
He held on to Yahweh; he did not depart from following him, and he kept his commands that Yahweh had commanded Moses.
And its thickness [was] a handbreadth, and its brim [was] like the working of the lip of a cup, the blossom of a lily. And it held three thousand baths.
And Solomon held a feast at that time [of] seven days. And all Israel [was] with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo-Hamath to the river of Egypt.
And on the eighth day they made a solemn assembly, for they held the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days.
After all that has come upon us for our evil practices and for our great guilt--you, our God, have held back less than our guilt [deserved] and you have given us a remainder such as this.
When the king saw Queen Esther standing in the courtyard she found favor in his eyes, and the king held out the gold scepter that [was] in his hand to Esther, and Esther approached and touched the top of the scepter.
And the king held out to Esther the scepter of gold, and Esther rose and stood before the king,
My foot has held on to his steps; I have kept his way, and I have not turned aside.
[I have] held my steps in your path My feet will not slip.
{Feasts are held for celebration}, wine cheers the living, and money answers everything.
{Scarcely had I passed} by them when I found him whom my {heart} loves. I held him and I would not let him go until I brought him to the house of my mother, into the bedroom chamber of she who conceived me.
{Your head crowns you like Carmel}; the flowing locks of your head [are] like {purple tapestry}; a king is held captive in the tresses!
Israel [was] holy to Yahweh, the first fruit of his produce. All [those who] ate it were held guilty; disaster came to them," {declares} Yahweh.'"
And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah second [time] while he [was] still held back in the courtyard of the guard, {saying},
And Jeremiah instructed Baruch, {saying}, "I [am] held back, I am not able to enter the temple of Yahweh.
So Herodias held a grudge against him and was wanting to kill him, and was not able [to do so].
God raised {him} up, having brought to an end the pains of death, because it was not possible [for] him to be held by it.
but Paul held the opinion they should not take this one along, who departed from them in Pamphylia and did not accompany them in the work.
And slipping the anchors, they left [them] in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes of the steering oars. And hoisting the foresail to the [wind] that was blowing, they held course for the beach.
But about Israel he says, "The whole day [long] I held out my hands to a disobedient and resistant people."
from whom the whole body, joined together and held together by every supporting ligament, according to the working by measure of each single part, the growth of the body makes for the building up of itself in love.
and he himself is before all [things], and in him all [things] are held together,
and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by the ligaments and sinews, grows with the growth of God.
and they will come to their senses again [and escape] from the trap of the devil, being held captive by him to [do] his will.
and having fallen away, to renew [them] again to repentance, [because they] have crucified again for themselves the Son of God and held him up to contempt.
Marriage [must be] held in honor by all, and the marriage bed [be] undefiled, because God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
Behold, the wages that were held back by you from the workers who reap your fields cry out, and the cries of the reapers have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts.
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but held [them] captive in Tartarus with chains of darkness [and] handed [them] over to be kept for judgment,
For [when] they maintain this, it escapes [their] notice that the heavens existed long ago and the earth held together out of water and through water by the word of God,
Bible Theasaurus
- Accommodate (7 instances)
- Adjudge (1 instance)
- Admit (16 instances)
- Arrest (38 instances)
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- Check (14 instances)
- Confine (14 instances)
- Contain (24 instances)
- Control (336 instances)
- Curb (5 instances)
- Declare (445 instances)
- Deem (7 instances)
- Defend (63 instances)
- Entertain (11 instances)
- Guard (263 instances)
- Halt (19 instances)
- Harbor (10 instances)
- Harbour (6 instances)
- Held (298 instances)
- Keep (1769 instances)
- Maintain (89 instances)
- Moderate (1 instance)
- Nurse (29 instances)
- Obligate (2 instances)
- Oblige (2 instances)
- Obtain (93 instances)
- Prevail (75 instances)
- Restrain (52 instances)
- Retain (38 instances)
- Support (201 instances)
- Sustain (46 instances)
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