κωλύω

imperfect 1 person plural ἐκωλύομεν (Mk 9:38 T Tr text WH); 1 aorist ἐκώλυσα; passive, present κωλύομαι; 1 aorist ἐκωλύθην; (from κόλος, lopped, clipped; properly, to cut off, cut short, hence) to hinder, prevent, forbid; (from Pindar down); the Sept. for כָּלָא, twice (viz. 1 Sam 25:26; 2 Sam 13:13) for מָנַע: τινα followed by an infinitive (Winer's Grammar, § 65, 2 β.; cf. Buttmann, § 148,13), Mt 19:14; Lk 23:2; Acts 16:6; Acts 24:23; 1 Thess 2:16; Heb 7:23; τί κωλύει με βαπτισθῆναι; what doth binder me from being (to be) baptized? Acts 8:36; the infinitive is omitted, as being evident from what has gone before, Mk 9:38; Mk 10:14; Lk 9:49; Lk 11:52; Lk 18:16; Acts 11:17; Rom 1:13; 3 Jn 1:10; αὐτόν is lacking, because it has preceded, Lk 9:50; the accusative is lacking, because easily supplied from the context, 1 Tim 4:3; as often in Greek writings, construction with τινα τίνος, to keep one from a thing, Acts 27:43; with the accusative of the thing, τήν παραφρονίαν, to restrain, check, 2 Pet 2:16; τό λαλεῖν γλωσαις, 1 Cor 14:39; τί, followed by τοῦ μή, can anyone hinder the water (which offers itself), that these should not be baptized? Acts 10:47; in imitation of the Hebrew כָּלָא followed by מִן of the person and the § of the thing, to withhold a thing from anyone, i. e. to deny or refuse one a thing: Lk 6:29 (Buttmann, § 132, 5) (τό μνημεῖον ἀπό σου, Gen 23:6). (Compare: διακωλύω.)