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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