What does κατακλείω (katakleíō) mean in the Bible?
κατακλείω (katakleíō): To confine or imprison someone, often emphasizing the state of being locked away in custody.
Greek · G2623
κατακλείω
κατακλείω (katakleíō): To confine or imprison someone, often emphasizing the state of being locked away in custody.
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κατακλείωG2623
Pronunciationkatakleíō
What does κατακλείω (katakleíō) mean in the Bible?
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G2623?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include He locked (1), put (1).
Where does κατακλείω (katakleíō) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 3:20. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (1), Luke (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders ItHe locked1×Luke 3:20
put1×Acts 26:10
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Usage map
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First aligned rowLuke 3:20
Aligned rows2
Books represented2
Luke1Acts1
Source forms
κατέκλεισα1xkatekleisaActs 26:10
κατέκλεισεν1xkatekleisenLuke 3:20
Parsing patterns
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular1xActs 26:10
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular1xLuke 3:20
Evidence Summary
Greek word. To confine or imprison someone, often emphasizing the state of being locked away in custody.
Strong'sG2623
Lexical occurrences2 versesGreek text appearances2 timesWord forms1 form2 referencesVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
to lock up
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Luke 3:20Verb Third Person Singular Aorist Active Indicative
κατέκλεισεkatekleisen
I shut up, confine
Read verseActs 26:10Verb First Person Singular Aorist Active Indicative
κατέκλεισα,katekleisa
I shut up, confine
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How mood, tense, and voice shift the force of this verb in context.
This verb appears through different tense, voice, mood, or stem patterns. Those forms help readers see how the action is presented in context.
Form groups1Aligned forms2TensesAoristVoicesActive
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Tenses
Voices
Indicativestates a fact or reality2×
Aorist ActiveLuke 3:20 · Acts 26:102×
Discourse Aspect
How this verb appears across 2 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect
Tense
aorist2
Voice
active2
Mood
indicative2
NT Occurrences
Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.
Clause data: MACULA Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0) · SBLGNT (Logos/SBL, CC BY 4.0)
Selected Scripture Witness
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
Witnesses
Luke 3:19–20κατέκλεισενkatakleíō
Shut up, confined
Showing 1 selected witness from 2 lexical occurrence verses.
Word Origins
κατακλείω is built from these roots: