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'Maintained' in the Bible

And Joseph maintained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the number of the little ones.

And Barzillai was very aged, eighty years old; and it was he that had maintained the king while he abode at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women, concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in a house of confinement and maintained them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

and it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and maintained them with bread and water);

Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of Jehovah, how I hid a hundred men of Jehovah's prophets by fifty in a cave, and maintained them with bread and water?

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause. Thou sittest on the throne, judging righteously.

Maintained for ever and ever, done in truth and uprightness.

His heart is maintained, he is not afraid, until he see his desire upon his oppressors.

And after the lapse of about one hour another stoutly maintained it, saying, In truth this man also was with him, for also he is a Galilaean.

And they said to her, Thou art mad. But she maintained that it was so. And they said, It is his angel.

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προΐ́στημι 
Proistemi 
rule , maintain , be over
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