'Holding' in the Bible

And the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars, holding in their left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow; and they cried, "A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!"

And I am full of the fury of Jehovah, I am weary with holding in. Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken; the aged with him that is full of days.

And I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name: but it was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones; and I became wearied with holding in, and I could not.

(for the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands diligently, do not eat, holding what has been delivered by the ancients;

Now there were standing there six stone water-vessels, according to the purification of the Jews, holding two or three measures each.

For there is revealed wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety, and unrighteousness of men holding the truth in unrighteousness.

but, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:

holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.

and not holding fast the head, from whom all the body, ministered to and united together by the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

constant quarrellings of men corrupted in mind and destitute of the truth, holding gain to be the end of piety.

For I rejoiced exceedingly when the brethren came and bore testimony to thy holding fast the truth, even as thou walkest in truth.

And after this I saw four angels standing upon the four corners of the earth, holding fast the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow upon the earth, nor upon the sea, nor upon any tree.