2001 Translation

EIRXAI, eirxai

Sounds Like: EERX-ai

Translations: to shut in, to restrain, to hinder, to prevent, to confine

From the root: ΕἼΡΓΩ

Part of Speech: Verb

Explanation: This word is the aorist active infinitive form of the verb 'eirgō'. It means to shut in, restrain, hinder, or prevent. It describes an action of limiting movement or stopping something from happening. For example, it could be used to say 'to prevent someone from entering' or 'to restrain a person'.

Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive

Strong’s number: G1672 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 5:16

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕἼΡΓΩ.

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.

• ΕἸΡΓΕΤΟ — was shut in, was confined, was prevented, was hindered, was kept back
• ΕἸΡΓΟΝΤΟ — were being shut in, were being confined, were being kept back, were being prevented, were being hindered

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