ἀποκωλύω
hinder, prevent
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀποκωλύω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 8 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Samuel 6:10 ἀποκωλύω And the Philistines did so; and they took two cows that had calved for the first time, and yoked them to the wagon, and shut up their calves at home.
- 1 Samuel 25:7 ἀποκωλύω And now, behold, I have heard that your shepherds who were with us in the wilderness are shearing your sheep, and we hindered them not, neither did we demand any thing from them all the time they were in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 25:15 ἀποκωλύω And the men were very good to us; they did not hinder us, neither did they demand from us any thing all the days that we were with them.
- 1 Samuel 25:33 ἀποκωλύω and blessed be your conduct, and blessed be you, who have hindered me this very day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself.
- 1 Samuel 25:34 ἀποκωλύω But surely as the Lord God of Israel lives, who hindered me this day from doing you harm, if you had not hasted and come to meet me, then I said, There shall surely not be left to Nabal till the morning one male.
- 1 Kings 1:6 ἀποκωλύω And his father never at any time checked him, saying, Why have you done thus? and he was also very handsome in appearance, and his mother bore him after Abessalom.
- 1 Kings 21:7 ἀποκωλύω And the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Take notice now and consider, that this man seeks mischief: for he has sent to me concerning my wives, and concerning my sons, and concerning my daughters: I have not kept back from him my silver and my gold.
- Ecclesiastes 2:10 ἀποκωλύω And whatever my eyes desired, I withheld not from them, I withheld not my heart from all my mirth: for my heart rejoiced in all my labor; and this was my portion of all my labor.
About this word
About this word
ἀποκωλύω (apokōlýō), “hinder, prevent,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 8 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →