κατέχων (katechon)

κατέχων is an Ancient Greek form of κατέχω, meaning “hold down, restrain, occupy”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 57 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 761: σπεύδεις κατέχων πράξειας, ἐπεὶ

All forms of κατέχω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.