ἘΝΕΚΛΕΙΣΕΝ, ἐνεκλεισεν
ENEKLEISEN, enekleisen
Sounds Like: en-EK-kley-sen
Translations: shut in, enclosed, imprisoned, confined
From the root: ΕΓΚΛΕΙΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is the third person singular aorist active indicative form of the verb 'ἐγκλείω'. It means 'he/she/it shut in', 'he/she/it enclosed', or 'he/she/it imprisoned'. It describes an action of confining or enclosing someone or something within a space.
Inflection: Third Person, Singular, Aorist, Active, Indicative
Strong’s number: G1457 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 33:3
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Mathetes
- Letter to Diognetus — 7:2
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
- ἘΝΕΚΛΕΙΕΝ — was shutting in, was enclosing, was confining, was imprisoning
- ἘΝΕΚΛΕΙΣΕ — he enclosed, he shut in, he confined, he imprisoned
- ΕΓΚΛΕΙΩ — to shut in, to enclose, to confine, to imprison
- ΕΝΕΚΛΕΙΣΑ — I shut in, I enclose, I imprison, I confine
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