Lexical Summary diakōlyō: to hinder Original Word: διακωλύωTransliteration: diakōlyō Phonetic Spelling: (dee-ak-o-loo'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to hinder Meaning: to hinder Strong's Concordance forbid. From dia and koluo; to hinder altogether, i.e. Utterly prohibit -- forbid. see GREEK dia see GREEK koluo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1254: διακωλύωδιακωλύω: imperfect διεκωλυον; (διά in this compound does not denote effort as is commonly said, but separation, Latindis, cf. German verhindern, Latinprohibere; cf. διακλειω, to separate by shutting, shut out; cf. Winers De verb. comp. etc. Part v., p. 17f); to hinder, prevent: τινα, Matthew 3:14 (on the tense cf. Winers Grammar, § 40, 3 c.; Buttmann, 205 (178)). (From Sophocles and Thucydides down.) |
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