'Held' in the Bible
But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ, the Son of God.
And he saith unto them, Is it lawful on the sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? to save a life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
But they held their peace: for they had disputed one with another on the way, who was the greatest.
But should we say, From men--they feared the people: for all verily held John to be a prophet.
But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and saith unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?
And straightway in the morning the chief priests with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
And when the voice came, Jesus was found alone. And they held their peace, and told no man in those days any of the things which they had seen.
But they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go.
And they were not able to take hold of the saying before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.
And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and beat him.
And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.
And when they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then to the Gentiles also hath God granted repentance unto life.
But the multitude of the city was divided; and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Brethren, hearken unto me:
But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the rudiments of the world:
And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
Bible Theasaurus
- Accommodate (7 instances)
- Adjudge (1 instance)
- Admit (16 instances)
- Arrest (38 instances)
- Bear (470 instances)
- Bind (77 instances)
- Carry (408 instances)
- 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)
- Throw (178 instances)