ἀποκλείω
to shut up
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G608 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek verb αποκλειω centers on the idea of “to shut up.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Luke dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. A true hapax — its single appearance is Luke 13:25. Related forms include απο, απαγγελλω and απαγχομαι. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G608 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Gospels 1 verse · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Hath shut 1×
- American Standard Version: Hath shut to 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Shuts 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Closes 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G608 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G608 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G608 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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Renders G608 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to shut up
Word origin
Derived from απο (apó) (G575) — from.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G608, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- απαγγελλω apangéllō G518 to report
- απαγχομαι apánchomai G519 to strangle
- απαγω apágō G520 to lead away
- απαιρω apaírō G522 to take away
- απαιτεω apaitéō G523 to demand back
- απαλγεω apalgéō G524 to cease grieving
- απαλλασσω apallássō G525 to depart
- απαλλοτριοω apallotrióō G526 to estrange
- απανταω apantáō G528 to meet
- απαρνεομαι aparnéomai G533 to deny
- απαρτι apárti G534 henceforth
- απαρχη aparchḗ G536 to offer firstfruits
- απαυγασμα apaúgasma G541 brightness
- απειδω apeídō G542 to look away
- απειμι ápeimi G548 to depart
- απειμι ápeimi G549 to depart
- απειπομην apeipómēn G550 to declare
- απεκδεχομαι apekdéchomai G553 waiting for
- απεκδυομαι apekdýomai G554 to despoil
- απελαυνω apelaúnō G556 to drive away
- απελεγμος apelegmós G557 censure
- απελευθερος apeleútheros G558 freedman
- απελπιζω apelpízō G560 not despairing
- απεναντι apénanti G561 opposite
+85 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 111 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αποκλειω appears 23 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 22 verses in 9 books.
- 23
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 22
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 19:10 ἀποκλείω
- Judges 3:22 ἀποκλείω
- 1 Samuel 1:5 ἀποκλείω
- 2 Samuel 13:17 ἀποκλείω
- 2 Kings 4:4 ἀποκλείω
- 2 Chronicles 29:7 ἀποκλείω
- Psalms 67:31 ἀποκλείω
- Isaiah 24:22 ἀποκλείω
- Daniel 6:19 ἀποκλείω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G608) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 19:10 ἀποκλείω But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
- Judges 3:22 ἀποκλείω and the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed on the blade, for he didn't draw the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.
- Judges 3:23 ἀποκλείω Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room on him, and locked them.
- 1 Samuel 1:5 ἀποκλείω but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.
- 1 Samuel 17:26 ἀποκλείω David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
- 1 Samuel 23:7 ἀποκλείω It was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. Saul said, God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars.
- 1 Samuel 23:11 ἀποκλείω Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant. Yahweh said, He will come down.
- 1 Samuel 24:19 ἀποκλείω For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me this day.
- 1 Samuel 26:8 ἀποκλείω Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day: now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.
- 2 Samuel 13:17 ἀποκλείω Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.
- 2 Samuel 13:18 ἀποκλείω She had a garment of various colors on her; for with such robes were the king's daughters who were virgins dressed. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.
- 2 Samuel 18:28 ἀποκλείω Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, All is well. He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, Blessed be Yahweh your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king.
- 2 Kings 4:4 ἀποκλείω You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and you shall set aside that which is full.
- 2 Kings 4:5 ἀποκλείω So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought [the vessels] to her, and she poured out.
- 2 Kings 4:21 ἀποκλείω She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut [the door] on him, and went out.
- 2 Kings 4:33 ἀποκλείω He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 6:32 ἀποκλείω But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and [the king] sent a man from before him: but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See you how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him: isn't the sound of his master's feet behind him?
- 2 Chronicles 29:7 ἀποκλείω Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.
- Psalms 67:31 ἀποκλείω
- Isaiah 24:22 ἀποκλείω They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.
- Isaiah 26:20 ἀποκλείω Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you: hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation be past.
- Daniel 6:19 ἀποκλείω Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G608) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
