Limitless Word
καταλαμβάνωkatalambánō
GreekG263815 occurrences (KJV)

to take eagerly, i.e. seize, possess, etc. (literally or figuratively)

KJV renders it: apprehend, attain, come upon, comprehend, find, obtain, perceive, (over-)take

Where it appears(showing the first 14 of 15)

  • Mark 9:18and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.”
  • John 1:5The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.
  • John 8:3The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,
  • John 8:4they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.
  • John 12:35Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
  • Acts 4:13Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.
  • Acts 10:34Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;
  • Acts 25:25But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him,
  • Rom 9:30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
  • 1 Cor 9:24Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
  • Eph 3:18may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,
  • Phil 3:12Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
  • Phil 3:13Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
  • 1 Th 5:4But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.