Word

ἐκκλείω

ekkleíō · G1576 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to eliminate, to not allow, to exclude

    To cause something to be excluded or not allowed

    Examples

    Romans 3:27 Where then is boasting? It has been excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

  2. to exclude, to separate, to get rid of

    To exclude or remove someone from an association

    Examples

    Galatians 4:17 They eagerly seek you, not in a commendable way, but they want to shut you out so that you will seek them.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
ἀφορίζω aphorízō · G873 · to exclude, to separate, to get rid of
ἀφορίζω (“to set off by boundary, to limit, to exclude, to appoint”) and the target term both denote separative action, converging in the specific sense of excluding or shutting someone out, alongside ἀφορίζω's wider range that also includes positive senses such as setting apart or appointing.
Semantic domains 2 entries
To eliminate, to not allow, to exclude13.143
Used in Romans 3:27, where Paul asks where boasting is, then answers that it has been excluded, not by a law of works but by the law of faith.
To exclude, to separate, to get rid of34.36
Used in Galatians 4:17, of those who eagerly seek the Galatians, not commendably, but wanting to shut them out so that the Galatians would seek them instead.
Word family 6 words
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist infinitive ἐκκλεῖσαι; 1 aorist passive ἐξεκλείσθην; (from (Herodotus)…
: 1 aorist infinitive ἐκκλεῖσαι; 1 aorist passive ἐξεκλείσθην; (from (Herodotus) Euripides down); to shut out: Gal 4:17 (viz. from contact with me and with teachers cooperating with me); equivalent to to turn out of doors: to prevent the approach of one, passive in Rom 3:27.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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