Word Summary
enkoptō: to cut into, impede, detain
Original Word: ἐγκόπτωTransliteration: enkoptō
Phonetic Spelling: (eng-kop'-to)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to cut into, impede, detain
Meaning: to cut into, impede, detain
Strong's Concordance
hinder, be tedious unto.
From en and kopto; to cut into, i.e. (figuratively) impede, detain -- hinder, be tedious unto.
see GREEK en
see GREEK kopto
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1465: ἐγκόπτωἐγκόπτω (in Acts
T WH ἐνκόπτω, so
T in 1 Pet. where
R ἐκκόπτω; see
ἐν, III. 3); 1 aorist
ἐνεκοψα; passive (present
ἐγκόπτομαι; imperfect
ἐνεκοπτόμην;
to cut into, to impede one's course by cutting off his way; hence, universally,
to hinder (
Hesychius:
ἐμποδίζω,
διακωλύω); with the dative of the object,
Polybius 24, 1, 12; in the N. T. with the accusative of the object,
1 Thessalonians 2:18; followed by an infinitive,
Galatians 5:7 (see
ἀνακόπτω); an infinitive preceded by
τοῦ,
Romans 15:22;
εἰς τό μή ἐγκόπτεσθαι τάς προσευχάς ὑμῶν, that ye be not hindered from praying (together),
1 Peter 3:7; equivalent to to detain (
A. V. to be tedious unto) one,
Acts 24:4 (cf. Valcken. Schol. 1:600f).