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To shut

ἀποκλείωStrong’s G0608

apokleiō

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Apokleiō is the Greek word usually translated “may have shut”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:”
Luke 13:25 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “may have shut”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • may have shut 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Luke 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    ἀποκλείω apokleiō · to shut

    ἀπο-κλείω [in LXX chiefly for סָגַר ;] to shut fast: Luk.13:25.† (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “shut” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    SHUT, verb transitive

    pretand participle passive shut.

    1. To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or gate; to shut the eyes or the mouth.
    2. To prohibit; to bar; to forbid entrance into; as, to shut the ports of the kingdom by a blockade.
    3. To preclude; to exclude.
    4. To close, as the fingers; to contract; as, to shut the hand.
    All definitions and other forms of “shut”
    1. Spoken of points of land, when by the progress of a ship, one point is brought to cover or intercept the view of another.
    2. To obstruct.
    3. To confine; to imprison; to lock or fasten in; as, to shut up a prisoner.
    4. To confine by legal or moral restraint.“Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up to the faith, which should afterwards be revealed” Galatians 3:23
    5. To end; to terminate; to conclude.

    SHUT, verb intransitive

    To close itself; to be closed. The door shuts of itself; it shuts hard. Certain flowers shut at night and open in the day.

      SHUT, participle passive

      1. Closed; having the entrance barred.
      2. adjective Rid; clear; free.

      SHUT, noun

      1. Close; the act of closing; as the shut of a door; the shut of evening. [Little used.]
      2. A small door or cover; But shutter is more generally used.

      Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

      Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.