Retain
King James Dictionary [1]
Reta'In, L retineo re and teneo, to hold.
1. To hold or keep in possession not to lose or part with or dismiss. The memory retains ideas which facts or arguments have suggested to the mind.
They did not like to retain God in their knowledge. Romans 1 .
2. To keep, as an associate to keep from departure.
Whom I would have retained with me. Philippians 13 .
3. To keep back to hold.
An executor may retain a debt due to him from the testator.
4. To hold from escape. Some substances retain heat much longer than others. Metals readily receive and transmit heat, but do not long retain it. Seek cloths that retain their color. 5. To keep in pay to hire.
A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defense.
6. To engage to employ by a fee paid as, to retain a counselor.
RETA'IN,
1. To belong to to depend on as coldness mixed with a somewhat languid relish retaining to bitterness.
Not in use. We now use pertain.
2. To keep to continue. Not in use.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [2]
"to be strong, obtain, hold, hold fast," is translated "to retain," of sins, John 20:23 (twice); see on Remit. See Hold , Keep , Obtain , Take.
Philemon 1:13 Romans 1:28
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( v. t.) To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like.
(2): ( v. t.) To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor.
(3): ( v. t.) To restrain; to prevent.
(4): ( v. i.) To keep; to continue; to remain.
(5): ( v. i.) To belong; to pertain.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
rḗ - tān ´: Several Hebrew words are thus translated: חזק , ḥāzaḳ , "to hold fast" ( Judges 7:8; Judges 19:4; Job 2:9 the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) "hold fast"); Micah 7:18 ); עצר , ‛ācar , "to shut up" (only in Daniel 10:8 , Daniel 10:16; Daniel 11:6 ); תּמך , tāmakh , "to hold" ( Proverbs 3:18; Proverbs 4:4; Proverbs 11:16 the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) "obtain")); in one case kālā' ( Ecclesiastes 8:8 ). In the New Testament κρατέω , kratéō , is used in John 20:23 of the "retaining" of sins by the apostles (see Retention Of Sins ); in Romans 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" ( échō ); and in Philippians 1:13 , substitutes "fain have kept" for "retained" ( katéchō ). Sirach 41:16 has "retain" for diaphulássō , "keep."
