βιάζω

βιάζω (βία), and depon. -ομαι,

[in LXX for פּרץ, פּצר, etc. ;]

to force, constrain, rare in active (poet, and late prose), but found in cl. in pass., and so perh. βιάζεται, suffereth violence, Matt 11,12, EV (but see infr.), whether

(a) in good sense, of disciples (Thayer, al.), or

(b) in bad sense, of the enemies of the kingdom (Meyer, in l.; Dalman, Words, 139ff.; Cremer, 141ff.). Mid., advanceth violently, Mt, l.with (Deiss., BS., 258; Banks, see ref. in DCG, ii, 803f.); before εἰς, to press violently, or force one's way into, Luk 16,16 (see ICC, in l., and in Mt, l.with; cf. παραβιάζομαι and see MM, see word).

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