STRONGS G1254:
διακωλύω: imperfect
διεκώλυον; (
διά in this compound does not denote effort as is commonly said, but separation, Latin
dis, cf. German
verhindern, Latin
prohibere; cf.
διακλείω, to separate by shutting, shut out; cf.
Winers De verb. comp. etc. Part v., p. 17f);
to hinder, prevent:
τινά,
Matthew 3:14 [on the tense cf. Winers Grammar, § 40, 3 c.; Buttmann, 205 (178)]. (From Sophocles and Thucydides down.)
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