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Strong's G608 ἀποκλείω (apokleio)

Apokleio means “shut up” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H608 — antun (“ye”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G608
Language Greek
Linked Usages 35
Books 16

Strong's G608 Quick Answer

Strong's G608 ἀποκλείω (apokleio) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. apokleio (ap-ok-lei'-o) v. 1. to close fully [from G575 and G2808] It has 35 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include shut. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
apokleio (ap-ok-lei'-o) v. 1. to close fully [from G575 and G2808]
Usage
35 linked usages
Books
16 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
shut

Meaning and Definition

apokleio (ap-ok-lei'-o) v. 1. to close fully [from G575 and G2808] KJV: shut up Root(s): G575, G2808

Original Word
ἀποκλείω
Transliteration
apokleio
Derivation
Root: κλείω R1: 575 R2: 2808
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G608. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's G608 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render apokleio, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

shut Luke 13:25

How Strong's G608 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 22 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G608 (ἀποκλείω) appears 32 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G608 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G608 in the New Testament

1 indexed usage in New Testament.

Luke 13:25 KJV

When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:

Strong's G608 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

22 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 19:10 Septuagint / Brenton

And the men stretched forth their hands and drew Lot in to them into the house, and shut the door of the house.

Judges 3:22 Septuagint / Brenton

and drove in also the haft after the blade, and the fat closed in upon the blade, for he drew not out the dagger from his belly.

Judges 3:23 Septuagint / Brenton

And Ehud went out to the porch, and passed out by the appointed guards, and shut the doors of the chamber upon him, and locked them.

Strong's G608 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

12 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 13:1 Septuagint / Brenton

Now when the evening was come, his servants made haste to depart, and Bagoas shut his tent without, and dismissed the waiters from the presence of his lord; and they went to their beds: for they were all weary, because the feast had been long.

Tobit 8:4 Septuagint / Brenton

And after that they were both shut in together, Tobias rose out of the bed, and said, Sister, arise, and let us pray that God would have pity on us.

1 Maccabees 5:47 Septuagint / Brenton

Then they of the city shut them out, and stopped up the gates with stones.

Usage Excerpts

First 35 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G608.

Genesis 19:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the men stretched forth their hands and drew Lot in to them into the house, and shut the door of the house.
Judges 3:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and drove in also the haft after the blade, and the fat closed in upon the blade, for he drew not out the dagger from his belly.
Judges 3:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Ehud went out to the porch, and passed out by the appointed guards, and shut the doors of the chamber upon him, and locked them.
1 Kingdoms 1:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And to Hannah he gave a prime portion, because she had no child, only Elkanah loved Hannah more than the other; but the Lord had closed her womb.
1 Kingdoms 17:46 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
this day. And the Lord shall deliver thee this day into my hand; and I will slay thee, and take away thy head from off thee, and will give thy limbs and the limbs of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and all the earth shall know that there is a God in Israel.
1 Kingdoms 23:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah: and Saul said, God has sold him into my hands, for he is shut up, having entered into a city that has gates and bars.
1 Kingdoms 23:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Will the place be shut up? and now will Saul come down, as thy servant has heard? Lord God of Israel, tell thy servant. And the Lord said, It will be shut up.
1 Kingdoms 24:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou hast told me today what good thou hast done me, how the Lord shut me up into thy hands today, and thou didst not slay me.
1 Kingdoms 26:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abishai said to David, The Lord has this day shut up thine enemy into thy hands, and now I will smite him to the earth with the spear to the ground once for all, and I will not smite him again.
2 Kingdoms 13:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he called his servant who had charge of the house, and said to him, Put now this woman out from me, and shut the door after her.
2 Kingdoms 13:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she had on her a variegated robe, for so were the king’s daughters that were virgins attired in their apparel: and his servant led her forth, and shut the door after her.
2 Kingdoms 18:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Ahimaaz cried out and said to the king, Peace. And he did obeisance to the king with his face to the ground, and said, Blessed be the Lord thy God, who has delivered up the men that lifted up their hands against my lord the king.
4 Kingdoms 4:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt go in and shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and thou shalt pour forth into these vessels, and remove that which is filled.
4 Kingdoms 4:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she departed from him, and shut the door upon herself and upon her sons: they brought the vessels near to her, and she poured in until the vessels were filled.
4 Kingdoms 4:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she carried him up and laid him on the bed of the man of God; and she shut the door upon him, and went out.
4 Kingdoms 4:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elisha went into the house, and shut the door upon themselves, the two, and prayed to the Lord.
4 Kingdoms 6:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and the king sent a man before him: before the messenger came to him, he also said to the elders, Do ye see that this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? See, as soon as the messenger shall have come, shut the door, and forcibly detain him at the door: is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?
2 Chronicles 29:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they have shut up the doors of the temple, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense, and have not offered whole burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.
Psalms 67:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Rebuke the wild beasts of the reed: Let the crowd of bulls with the heifers of the nations be rebuked, So that they who have been proved with silver may not be shut out: Scatter thou the nations that wish for wars.
Isaiah 24:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall gather the multitude thereof into prisons, and they shall shut them into a stronghold: after many generations they shall be visited.
Isaiah 26:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Go, my people, enter into thy closets, shut thy door, hide thyself for a little season, until the anger of the Lord have passed away.
Daniel 6:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king departed to his house, and lay down fasting, and they brought him no food; and his sleep departed from him. But God shut the mouths of the lions, and they did not molest Daniel.
Luke 13:25 New Testament, KJV
When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
Judith 13:1 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now when the evening was come, his servants made haste to depart, and Bagoas shut his tent without, and dismissed the waiters from the presence of his lord; and they went to their beds: for they were all weary, because the feast had been long.
Tobit 8:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And after that they were both shut in together, Tobias rose out of the bed, and said, Sister, arise, and let us pray that God would have pity on us.
1 Maccabees 5:47 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then they of the city shut them out, and stopped up the gates with stones.
1 Maccabees 10:75 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And he pitched his tents against Joppa: but they shut him out of the city, because Apollonius had a garrison in Joppa.
1 Maccabees 11:61 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
From whence he went to Gaza, but they of Gaza shut him out; wherefore he laid siege unto it, and burned the suburbs thereof with fire, and spoiled them.
1 Maccabees 12:48 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now as soon as Jonathan entered into Ptolemais, they of Ptolemais shut the gates, and took him, and all them that came with him they slew with the sword.
Daniel 1:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And Daniel said to Amelsad, whom the chief of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
Daniel 1:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And at the end of the days, after which the king had given orders to bring them in, then the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
Daniel 1:36 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Book 151 1:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Book 151 1:36 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Book 152 1:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G608, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Daniel 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Book 151 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Book 152 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G608 FAQ

What does apokleio (ἀποκλείω) mean?

Apokleio (Strong's G608) is a Greek word most simply glossed "shut up". apokleio (ap-ok-lei'-o) v. 1. to close fully [from G575 and G2808]

How many times is apokleio (ἀποκλείω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 35 linked usages for Strong's G608 across 16 books.

Where can I study apokleio (ἀποκλείω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G608 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate apokleio (ἀποκλείω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as shut. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G608 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 22 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 12 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G608, with linked reader references where each row is available.