Enjoin

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Ἐντέλλω (Strong'S #1781 — Verb — entellomai — en-tel'-lom-ahee )

is translated "hath enjoined" in the AV of  Hebrews 9:20 . See Command (Rv )

2: Ἐπιτάσσω (Strong'S #2004 — Verb — epitasso — ep-ee-tas'-so )

lit., "to set or arrange over, to charge, command," is rendered "enjoin" in  Philemon 1:8 . See Command. Cp. keleuo, "to order."

King James Dictionary

Enjoin', L injungo. See Join. We observe that the primary sense of join is to set, extend or lay to, to throw to or on otherwise the sense of order or command could not spring from it.To enjoin is to set or lay to or on.

1. To order or direct with urgency to admonish or instruct with authority to command. Says Johnson, "this word is more authoritative than direct, and less imperious than command." It has the force of pressing admonition with authority as, a parent enjoins on his children the duty of obedience. But it has also the sense of command as the duties enjoined by God in the moral law. 2. In law, to forbid judicially to issue or direct a legal injunction to stop proceedings.

This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturbing the plaintiffs.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( v. t.) To join or unite.

(2): ( v. t.) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.

(3): ( v. t.) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

en join  Job 36:23 Esther 9:31  Philippians 1:8