Strong G2808κλείω
to shut
- Transliteration
- kleiō
- Pronunciation
- kli'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
A primary verb; to close (literally or figuratively): - shut (up).
Detailed definition
κλείω
[in LXX chiefly for סָגַר;]
to shut: θύραν, Mat.6:6; τ. ἄβυσσον, Rev.20:3; pass., θύρα, Mat.25:10, Luk.11:7 (pl.), Jhn.20:19, 26, Act.21:30; δεσμωτήριον, Act.5:23; πυλῶνες, Rev.21:25. Metaphorical, τ. οὐρανόν, Luk.4:25, Rom.11:6; τ. σπλάγχνα, 1Jn.3:17; τ. βασιλείαν, Mat.23:14; id. absol., Rev.3:7; τ. θύραν, Rev.3:8. (cf. ἀπο-, ἐκ-, κατα-, συν-κλείω.) †
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for סָגַר;]
to shut: θύραν, Mat.6:6; τ. ἄβυσσον, Rev.20:3; pass., θύρα, Mat.25:10, Luk.11:7 (pl.), Jhn.20:19, 26, Act.21:30; δεσμωτήριον, Act.5:23; πυλῶνες, Rev.21:25. Metaphorical, τ. οὐρανόν, Luk.4:25, Rom.11:6; τ. σπλάγχνα, 1Jn.3:17; τ. βασιλείαν, Mat.23:14; id. absol., Rev.3:7; τ. θύραν, Rev.3:8. (cf. ἀπο-, ἐκ-, κατα-, συν-κλείω.) †
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2808 appears in 15 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- shut13
- shutteth2
- shall1
- up1
First verses
- Matthew 6:6But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
- Matthew 23:13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
- Matthew 25:10And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
- Luke 4:25But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
- Luke 11:7And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
- John 20:19Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
- John 20:26And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
- Acts 5:23Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
- Acts 21:30And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.
- 1 John 3:17But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
- Revelation 3:7And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
- Revelation 3:8I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
- Revelation 11:6These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
- Revelation 20:3And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
- Revelation 21:25And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
κλείω
A, future κλείσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.3.20 (ἀπο-), 4th c.AD: Himerius Sophista “Orationes” 22.7)]; rare future κατα-κλιῶ, see at {κατακλείω}: aorist ἔκλεισα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.1.36, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 348b)]: perfect κέκλεικα [LXX+4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 18.4, LXX.1Ki.23.20, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tox.” 30)]: pluperfect ἐκεκλείκειν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Ἀννιβαϊκή” 47)]:*mdash;middle, aorist 1 ἐκλεισάμην (κατ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.5, (ἐγ-) [prev. author] “HG” 6.5.9:)] —passive, future κλεισθήσομαι [Refs ((συγ-) [prev. work] 5.2.19)]: aorist ἐκλείσθην [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.110)], etc.: perfect κέκλειμαι (later κέκλεισμαι falsa lectio in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 198) (see. below))]:—Ionic dialect κληΐω (ἀπο-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.7)]: aorist ἐκλήῑσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.166, (ἐξ-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.144)], Epic dialect κλήῑσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.30)]; infinitive κληῗσαι [Refs (21.382:)] — middle, future κληΐσσομαι conjecture in [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 2.310)]:—passive, aorist ἀπ-εκληΐσθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.165, 3.55, 58)]: perfect κεκλήϊμαι [Refs (2.121.β, compare 3.117, 7.129 (with variants))]: pluperfect ἀπ-εκεκλέατο [Refs (9.50)] codices:—old Attic dialect κλῄω (also Trag.,[Refs (compare “Anecdota Graeca - MSS. Bibl. Oxon.” 1.226))], future κλῄσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.8)]: aorist ἔκλῃσα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1447 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.4, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 560c:)]perfect κέκλῃκα (ἀπο-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1262)]:—middle, future κεκλῄσομαι [Refs ([prev. author] “Lys.” 1071)]: aorist περι-κλῄσασθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.52)]:—passive, aorist ἐκλῄσθην (κατ-, ξυν-) [Refs ([prev. author] 1.117, 4.67)], etc.: perfect κέκλῃμαι (see. below):— Doric dialect future κλᾳξῶ [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 6.32:)]aorist ἀπό-κλᾳξον, -κλᾴξας, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ ([prev. author] 15.43, 77, ἔκλᾳξε 3rd c.BC: Cercidas Iambographus 7.2, compare κλάκαι (to be read κλᾷσαι) · κλεῖσαι, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]:—middle, imperfect κατ-εκλᾴζετο [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 18.5)]:—passive, aorist κατ-εκλᾴσθην [Refs ([prev. author] 7.84)], but participle συγκατα-κλαιχθείς[Refs (“Chron.Lind.D.” 62)]: perfect 3rd.pers. plural κατα-κέκλᾱνται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 141.)] —Cf. κλῄζω (B). (κλείς):—shut, close, bar, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (only in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”), κλήϊσεν δὲ θύρας)] barred the doors, [Refs (21.387)]; ἐκλήϊσεν ὀχῆας shot the bars, so as to close the dooe door,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (24.166; κλῄειν πύλας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 997, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “R.” [same place], etc.; κ. πηκτὰ δωμάτων 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 479; κλεῖδες.., αἷς τὰς θύρας κλείουσιν 4th c.BC: Aristopho Comicus 7; Ἐτεοκλέους.. κλῄσας στόμα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 865)]; κανθώς Cerc.[same place]; λάρυγγα [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.65)]:—passive, βλέφαρα κέκλῃται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 711; ψυχῆς ἀνοῖξαι τὴν κεκλῃμένην πύλην [prev. author] “fragment” 393; κεκλειμένης σου τῆς παρρησίας οὐ κιγκλίσιν.., ἀλλὰ.. ὀφλήμασι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.28.)]
A.2 shut up, close, block up, Βόσπορον κλῇσαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 723 (troch.); κλῄσειν ταῖς ναυσὶν τοὺς ἔσπλους 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.8)]:—passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.121. ; τὰ ἐμπόρια κεκλῇσθαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 22.14; κεκλειμένων τῶν ἐμπορίων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.16.)]
A.II shut in, enclose, πόλιν.. πύργων μηχανῇ κεκλῃμένην [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 956)]; compare κλῄζω (B).
A.III confine, πλάστιγξ αὐχένα πώλων ἔκλῃε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 304)]:— passive, to be confined, χέρας βρόχοισι κεκλῃμένα [Refs ([prev. author] “Andr.” 502 (Lyric poetry): _metaphorically_, ὅρκοις κεκλῄμεθα [prev. author] “Hel.” 977.)]
A.III.2 deliver bound, τινὰ εἰς τὰς τοῦ βασιλέως χεῖρας [LXX (LXX.1Ki.23.20.)]
A, future κλείσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.3.20 (ἀπο-), 4th c.AD: Himerius Sophista “Orationes” 22.7)]; rare future κατα-κλιῶ, see at {κατακλείω}: aorist ἔκλεισα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.1.36, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 348b)]: perfect κέκλεικα [LXX+4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 18.4, LXX.1Ki.23.20, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tox.” 30)]: pluperfect ἐκεκλείκειν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Ἀννιβαϊκή” 47)]:*mdash;middle, aorist 1 ἐκλεισάμην (κατ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.2.5, (ἐγ-) [prev. author] “HG” 6.5.9:)] —passive, future κλεισθήσομαι [Refs ((συγ-) [prev. work] 5.2.19)]: aorist ἐκλείσθην [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.110)], etc.: perfect κέκλειμαι (later κέκλεισμαι falsa lectio in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 198) (see. below))]:—Ionic dialect κληΐω (ἀπο-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.7)]: aorist ἐκλήῑσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.166, (ἐξ-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.144)], Epic dialect κλήῑσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.30)]; infinitive κληῗσαι [Refs (21.382:)] — middle, future κληΐσσομαι conjecture in [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 2.310)]:—passive, aorist ἀπ-εκληΐσθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.165, 3.55, 58)]: perfect κεκλήϊμαι [Refs (2.121.β, compare 3.117, 7.129 (with variants))]: pluperfect ἀπ-εκεκλέατο [Refs (9.50)] codices:—old Attic dialect κλῄω (also Trag.,[Refs (compare “Anecdota Graeca - MSS. Bibl. Oxon.” 1.226))], future κλῄσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.8)]: aorist ἔκλῃσα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1447 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.4, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 560c:)]perfect κέκλῃκα (ἀπο-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1262)]:—middle, future κεκλῄσομαι [Refs ([prev. author] “Lys.” 1071)]: aorist περι-κλῄσασθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.52)]:—passive, aorist ἐκλῄσθην (κατ-, ξυν-) [Refs ([prev. author] 1.117, 4.67)], etc.: perfect κέκλῃμαι (see. below):— Doric dialect future κλᾳξῶ [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 6.32:)]aorist ἀπό-κλᾳξον, -κλᾴξας, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ ([prev. author] 15.43, 77, ἔκλᾳξε 3rd c.BC: Cercidas Iambographus 7.2, compare κλάκαι (to be read κλᾷσαι) · κλεῖσαι, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]:—middle, imperfect κατ-εκλᾴζετο [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 18.5)]:—passive, aorist κατ-εκλᾴσθην [Refs ([prev. author] 7.84)], but participle συγκατα-κλαιχθείς[Refs (“Chron.Lind.D.” 62)]: perfect 3rd.pers. plural κατα-κέκλᾱνται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 141.)] —Cf. κλῄζω (B). (κλείς):—shut, close, bar, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (only in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”), κλήϊσεν δὲ θύρας)] barred the doors, [Refs (21.387)]; ἐκλήϊσεν ὀχῆας shot the bars, so as to close the dooe door,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (24.166; κλῄειν πύλας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 997, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “R.” [same place], etc.; κ. πηκτὰ δωμάτων 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 479; κλεῖδες.., αἷς τὰς θύρας κλείουσιν 4th c.BC: Aristopho Comicus 7; Ἐτεοκλέους.. κλῄσας στόμα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 865)]; κανθώς Cerc.[same place]; λάρυγγα [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.65)]:—passive, βλέφαρα κέκλῃται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 711; ψυχῆς ἀνοῖξαι τὴν κεκλῃμένην πύλην [prev. author] “fragment” 393; κεκλειμένης σου τῆς παρρησίας οὐ κιγκλίσιν.., ἀλλὰ.. ὀφλήμασι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.28.)]
A.2 shut up, close, block up, Βόσπορον κλῇσαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 723 (troch.); κλῄσειν ταῖς ναυσὶν τοὺς ἔσπλους 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.8)]:—passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.121. ; τὰ ἐμπόρια κεκλῇσθαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 22.14; κεκλειμένων τῶν ἐμπορίων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.16.)]
A.II shut in, enclose, πόλιν.. πύργων μηχανῇ κεκλῃμένην [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 956)]; compare κλῄζω (B).
A.III confine, πλάστιγξ αὐχένα πώλων ἔκλῃε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 304)]:— passive, to be confined, χέρας βρόχοισι κεκλῃμένα [Refs ([prev. author] “Andr.” 502 (Lyric poetry): _metaphorically_, ὅρκοις κεκλῄμεθα [prev. author] “Hel.” 977.)]
A.III.2 deliver bound, τινὰ εἰς τὰς τοῦ βασιλέως χεῖρας [LXX (LXX.1Ki.23.20.)]