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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
1 Strong's Number: g3802 Greek: pagideuo

Entangle:

See ENSNARE.

2 Strong's Number: g1707 Greek: empleko

Entangle:

"to weave in" (en, "in," pleko, "to weave"), hence, metaphorically, to be involved, entangled in, is used in the Passive Voice in 2Ti 2:4, "entangleth himself;" 2Pe 2:20, "are entangled." In the Sept., Pro 28:18.

3 Strong's Number: g1758 Greek: enecho

Entangle:

"to hold in," is said

(a) of being "entangled" in a yoke of bondage, such as Judaism, Gal 5:1. Some mss. have the word in 2Th 1:4, the most authentic have anecho, "to endure;"

(b) with the meaning to set oneself against, be urgent against, said of the plotting of Herodias against John the Baptist, Mar 6:19, RV, "set herself against," AV, "had a quarrel against;" of the effort of the scribes and Pharisees to provoke the Lord to say something which would provide them with a ground of accusation against Him, Luk 11:53, RV, "to press upon," marg., "to set themselves vehemently against," AV, "to urge."

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