1. (n.) Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support.

2. (n.) A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture.

Unpossessed Possessions
... be living; and fears and hopes and loves and ambitions disturb our souls, just as
they do the spirits of the men that do not profess to have any holdfast in God ...
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The Inhabitant of the Rock
... aim and the point of rest. No man can steady his life except by clinging
to a holdfast without himself. Some of us look for that ...
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The Perseverance of Faith
... Faith is the great holdfast that hooks a soul on to the Saviour. Faith is thus powerful
because of its effects. Faith enlightens, enlivens and strengthens. ...
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God with Us, and we with God
... And, brother! there is nothing else that will stay a man's soul. The holdfast cannot
be a part of the chain. It must be fastened to a fixed point. ...
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The Savoy Declaration of the Congregational Churches. AD 1658.
... Scriptures, and also with a fresh taste thereof in their own hearts; which is no
other than what the Apostle exhorts to, Try all things, holdfast that which is ...
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Holding Fast and Held Fast
... currents of the river of life sweep us away. We shall have a holdfast and
a mooring. And although, like some light-ship anchored in ...
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Believing on Jesus, and Its Counterfeits
... I would not roughly break that single holdfast which now links you to the truth;
and yet I would not have you trust to it as though it would stand the stress ...
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Between the Two Appearings
... some "larger hope", I would say to you"Hope what you please; but remember, that
hope without truth at the bottom of it, is an anchor without a holdfast. ...
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The Universal Magnet
... If a man plants his feet firmly and wide apart, and holds on with both hands
to some staple or holdfast, then the drawing cannot draw. ...
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The Toiling Christ
... manhood is the tabernacle of God"without these two facts the morality and the teaching
of Christianity swing loose in vacuo, and have no holdfast in history ...
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Holdfast (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Holdfast (1 Occurrence). Habakkuk 2:11 For a stone from
the wall doth cry out, And a holdfast from the wood answereth it. (YLT). ...
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Holdeth (21 Occurrences)

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Holding (62 Occurrences)

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