1 Samuel 28:23
But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
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Compelled
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Galatians 2:3
But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
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ἀναγκάζω
anankázō · an-ang-kad'-zo
3 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
to necessitate
Strong's KJV usage: :--compel, constrain.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 26:11Strong's last: Galatians 2:3
Open full G315 profile →ἀγγαρεύω
angareúō · ang-ar-yew'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to be a courier, i.e. (by implication) to press into public service
Strong's KJV usage: :--compel (to go).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 27:32Strong's last: Matthew 27:32
Open full G29 profile →נָדַח
nâdach · naw-dakh'
1 times translated as this KJV form52 total Strong's occurrences
to push off; used in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (to expel, mislead, strike, inflict, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: banish, bring, cast down (out), chase, compel, draw away, drive (away, out, quite), fetch a stroke, force, go away, outcast, thrust away (out), withdraw.
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Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 21:11Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 21:11
Open full H5080 profile →פָּרַץ
pârats · paw-rats'
1 times translated as this KJV form49 total Strong's occurrences
to break out (in many applications, direct and indirect, literal and figurative)
Strong's KJV usage: × abroad, (make a) breach, break (away, down, -er, forth, in, up), burst out, come (spread) abroad, compel, disperse, grow, increase, open, press, scatter, urge.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 28:23Strong's last: 1 Samuel 28:23
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H6555
But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
H5080
Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.
G29
And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.
G315
And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
G315
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
G315
But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
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compelled
COMPELLED, participle passive Forced; constrained; obliged.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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