Greek verb · G315
ἀναγκάζω
anankazoan-ang-kad'-zo
to compel
9 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: anankázō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G315is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G315
to necessitate
The King James renders it: compel, constrain.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
anankazo is rendered "to compel". It stands 9 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Three of the uses stand in Galatians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 14:22Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of Him to the other side, while He dismissed the crowds.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of Him to the other side, while He dismissed the crowds.
Matthew 14:22ἠνάγκασεν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's nine uses are in Galatians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- He compelled2
- compel1
- compelled1
- do compel1
- do you compel1
- I was compelled1
- I was compelling1
- was compelled1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀναγινώσκω | anaginosko | to read | Uses32 |
| ἀνάγω | anago | to lead | Uses23 |
| ἀνάγκη | ananke | necessity | Uses17 |
| ἀναγγέλλω | anangello | to report | Uses14 |
| ἀναγκαῖος | anankaios | necessary | Uses8 |
| ἀνάγνωσις | anagnosis | reading | Uses3 |
| ἀναγεννάω | anagennao | to beget | Uses2 |
| ἀναγκαστῶς | anankastos | necessarily | Uses1 |
| ἀναγνωρίζομαι | anagnorizomai | to recognize | Uses1 |
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἠνάγκασεν2
- ἀναγκάζεις1
- ἀναγκάζουσιν1
- ἀνάγκασον1
- ἠνάγκαζον1
- ἠναγκάσατε1
- ἠναγκάσθη1
- ἠναγκάσθην1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 2nd person plural1V-AAI-2P
- verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singular1V-AAM-2S
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 1st person singular1V-API-1S
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-API-3S
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-IAI-1S
- verb · present active, indicative · 2nd person singular1V-PAI-2S
- verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-PAI-3P
Matthew
one use
Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of Him to the other side, while He dismissed the crowds.
- ἠνάγκασενenagkasenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He compelled
Mark
one use
Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of Him to Bethsaida, while He dismissed the crowd.
- ἠνάγκασενenagkasenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He compelled
Luke
one use
So the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.
- ἀνάγκασονanagkasonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do compel
Acts
two uses
I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.
- ἠνάγκαζονenagkazonverb · imperfect active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I was compelling
But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, even though I have no charge to bring against my nation.
- ἠναγκάσθηνenagkasthenverb · aorist passive, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I was compelled
2 Corinthians
one use
I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
- ἠναγκάσατεenagkasateverb · aorist active, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: compelled
Galatians
three uses
Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.
- ἠναγκάσθηenagkastheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was compelled
When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
- ἀναγκάζειςanagkazeisverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: do you compel
Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.
- ἀναγκάζουσινanagkazousinverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: compel
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.