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ἀποκλείω

apokleíō · G608 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to close off, to shut

    To close off an area, and in the process of doing so, to exclude

    Examples

    Luke 13:25 “Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin standing outside and knocking on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open up to us!’ and He then will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from.’

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

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

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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In the other Testament 1 word
סָגַר çâgar · H5462 · to shut, to close
סָגַר (çâgar, H5462) is the standard Hebrew verb for closing/shutting (doors, gates, wombs), which the LXX translators rendered with ἀποκλείω (apokleíō, G608) (ἀποκλείω, "to close fully") in contexts emphasizing complete closure or sealing off, making this a direct translation equivalent across the two languages.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To close off, to shut79.113
In Luke 13:25, Jesus warns that “once the head of the house gets up and shuts (apokleísēi) the door,” those left outside knocking will no longer be let in, describing a door being firmly closed.
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

κλείω kleíō · G2808 · to shut, to make shut, to close · 16×κλείς kleís · G2807 · key, the means of, the key to · 6×συγκλείω synkleíō · G4788 · to catch, to net, to cause to occur · 4×ἐκκλείω ekkleíō · G1576 · to eliminate, to not allow, to exclude · 2×κατακλείω katakleíō · G2623 · to put into prison, to cause to be put in prison · 2×ἀποκλείωapokleíō · G608
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist ἀπεκλεισα; to shut up: τήν θύραν, Lk 13:25. (Gen 19:10; 2 Sam 13:17f; often in…
: 1 aorist ἀπεκλεισα; to shut up: τήν θύραν, Lk 13:25. (Gen 19:10; 2 Sam 13:17f; often in Herodotus; in Attic prose writings from Thucydides down.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Open, Closed1 occurrence

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

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