Word Summary
katakleiō: to shut up
Original Word: κατακλείωTransliteration: katakleiō
Phonetic Spelling: (kat-ak-li'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to shut up
Meaning: to shut up
Strong's Concordance
shut up.
From kata and kleio; to shut down (in a dungeon), i.e. Incarcerate -- shut up.
see GREEK kata
see GREEK kleio
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2623: κατακλείωκατακλείω: 1 aorist
κατέκλεισα; from (
Herodotus),
Thucydides and
Xenophon down;
to shut up, confine:
τινα ἐν τῇ φυλακή,
Luke 3:20;
ἐν (which
Rec. omits)
φυλακαῖς,
Acts 26:10 (
Jeremiah 39:3 ()).