Strong's #315: anagkazo (pronounced an-ang-kad'-zo)

from 318; to necessitate:--compel, constrain.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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anagkazō

1) to necessitate, compel, drive to, constrain

1a) by force, threats, etc.

1b) by permission, entreaties, etc.

1c) by other means

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G318

Citing in TDNT: 1:344, 55

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Matthew 14:22: "And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into"
Mark 6:45: "And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the"
Luke 14:23: "and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house"
Acts 26:11: "oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against"
Acts 28:19: "when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that"
2 Corinthians 12:11: "a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought"
Galatians 2:3: "me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:"
Galatians 2:14: "and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?"
Galatians 6:12: "in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest"