Lexical 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). |