Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
to shut
Usage: ἀπο-κλείω [in LXX chiefly for סָגַר ;] to shut fast: Luk.13:25.† (AS)
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 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.
apokleio (ap-ok-lei'-o) v. 1. to close fully [from G575 and G2808] KJV: shut up Root(s): G575, G2808
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to shut
Usage: ἀπο-κλείω [in LXX chiefly for סָגַר ;] to shut fast: Luk.13:25.† (AS)
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.
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.
Strong's G608 (ἀποκλείω) appears 32 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
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:
22 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And the men stretched forth their hands and drew Lot in to them into the house, and shut the door of the house.
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.
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.
12 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
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.
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.
Then they of the city shut them out, and stopped up the gates with stones.
First 35 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G608.
And the men stretched forth their hands and drew Lot in to them into the house, and shut the door of the house.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And Elisha went into the house, and shut the door upon themselves, the two, and prayed to the Lord.
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?
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.
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.
And they shall gather the multitude thereof into prisons, and they shall shut them into a stronghold: after many generations they shall be visited.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
Then they of the city shut them out, and stopped up the gates with stones.
And he pitched his tents against Joppa: but they shut him out of the city, because Apollonius had a garrison in Joppa.
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.
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.
And Daniel said to Amelsad, whom the chief of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
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.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G608, grouped by book.
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]
This page currently indexes 35 linked usages for Strong's G608 across 16 books.
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.
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.
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.