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Strong's #2808: kleio (pronounced kli'-o)

a primary verb; to close (literally or figuratively):--shut (up).




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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kleiō

1) to shut, shut up

2) metaphorically

2a) to cause the heavens to withhold rain

2b) to shut up compassion so that it is like a thing inaccessible to one, to be devoid of pity towards one

2c) to obstruct the entrance into the kingdom of heaven

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primary verb




Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

Matthew 6:6: "thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy"
Matthew 23:13: "Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against"
Matthew 25:10: "and the door was shut."
Luke 4:25: "when the heaven was shut up three years and six"
Luke 11:7: "Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and"
John 20:19: "when the doors were shut where the disciples were"
John 20:26: "Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the"
Acts 5:23: "prison truly found we shut with all safety, and"
Acts 21:30: "and forthwith the doors were shut."
1 John 3:17: "brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from"
Revelation 3:7: "he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man"
Revelation 3:7: "no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;"
Revelation 3:8: "and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little"
Revelation 11:6: "These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not"
Revelation 20:3: "the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon"
Revelation 21:25: "the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be"









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