Retain

re-tan': Several Hebrew words are thus translated: chazaq, "to hold fast" (Jud 7:8;19:4;Job 2:9the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) "hold fast");Mic 7:18); `atsar, "to shut up" (only inDa 10:8,16;11:6); tamakh, "to hold" (Pr 3:18;4:4;11:16the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) "obtain")); in one case kala' (Ec 8:8). In the New Testament krateo, is used inJoh 20:23of the "retaining" of sins by the apostles (see RETENTION OF SINS); inRo 1:28, the Revised Version (British and American) has "refused to have," margin "Greek, `did not approve,' " for the King James Version "did not like to retain" (echo); and inPhm 1:13, substitutes "fain have kept" for "retained" (katecho). Sirach 41:16 has "retain" for diaphulasso, "keep."