ἘΝΕΚΛΕΙΕΝ, ἐνεκλειεν
ENEKLEIEN, enekleien
Sounds Like: eng-KLEI-en
Translations: was shutting in, was enclosing, was confining, was imprisoning
From the root: ΕΓΚΛΕΙΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the imperfect active indicative form of the verb 'ἐγκλείω'. It describes an action that was ongoing or repeated in the past, meaning 'to shut in', 'to enclose', 'to confine', or 'to imprison'. It implies an action of closing something or someone within a space, often with the sense of restriction or containment.
Inflection: Third Person, Singular, Imperfect, Active, Indicative
Strong’s number: G1457 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 1:32
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΓΚΛΕΙΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΓΚΕΚΛΕΙΣΘΑΙ — to be shut in, to be confined, to be imprisoned
- ἘΓΚΕΚΛΕΙΣΜΕΝΗΝ — enclosed, shut in, confined, imprisoned, a confined one, an imprisoned one
- ἘΓΚΕΚΛΕΙΣΜΕΝΟΙ — shut in, enclosed, imprisoned, confined
- ἘΓΚΕΚΛΕΙΣΜΕΝΟΝ — enclosed, shut in, confined, imprisoned, a prisoner
- ἘΓΚΕΚΛΕΙΣΜΕΝΟΥ — of one shut in, of one imprisoned, of one enclosed, of one confined
- ἘΓΚΕΚΛΕΙΣΤΑΙ — has been shut in, has been enclosed, has been confined, has been imprisoned
- ἘΓΚΛΕΙΕΙ — shuts in, encloses, locks in, confines, imprisons
- ἘΓΚΛΕΙΣΑΙ — to shut in, to enclose, to imprison, to confine
- ἘΓΚΛΕΙΣΑΣ — having shut in, having enclosed, having confined, having locked up
- ἘΓΚΛΕΙΣΘΕΙΣ — having been shut in, having been enclosed, having been imprisoned, having been confined
- ἘΓΚΛΕΙΣΘΕΝΤΑ — having been shut in, having been enclosed, having been imprisoned, having been confined
- ἘΓΚΛΕΙΣΘΕΝΤΕΣ — having been shut in, having been enclosed, having been confined
- ἘΝΕΚΛΕΙΣΕ — he enclosed, he shut in, he confined, he imprisoned
- ἘΝΕΚΛΕΙΣΕΝ — shut in, enclosed, imprisoned, confined
- ΕΓΚΛΕΙΩ — to shut in, to enclose, to confine, to imprison
- ΕΝΕΚΛΕΙΣΑ — I shut in, I enclose, I imprison, I confine
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