enkopēas

Strong’sG1464

an impediment, hindrance

stem enkopē-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ἐγ-κοπή, v.s. ἐνκ-.

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1464 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saideng-kop-ay'

a hindrance

Fromfrom G1465;

King JamesX hinder.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἐγκοπ-ή, ἡ,
incision, Refs 2nd c.AD+; fracture of skull, Refs 1st c.AD+
2 steps cut in the wall of wells, etc., Refs 2nd c.AD+
II hindrance, οἴησις προκοπῆς ἐ. NT+1st c.BC+; material obstacle, Refs 1st c.BC+; interruption, check, τῆς ἁρμονίας Refs 1st c.BC+; κατ᾽ ἐγκοπάς disjointedly, Refs 3rd c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

obstacle1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	enkopēas	enkopēais
object accusative	enkopēan1×ἐγκοπὴν	enkopēain
direct address vocative	enkopēar	enkopēair
of, belonging to genitive	enkopēau	enkopēaiu
to, for dative	enkopēa	enkopēai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

enkopēstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

enkopēa is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

enkopēan“obstacle”objectaccusative singular1×

1 Corinthians 9:12“obstacle”… alla panteim steganō hina mē tinan enkopēan dōaneia te euangelie tou Christou.… the more? But we did not exercise this right. Instead, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ.