Exclude
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to shut out" (ek, "from," kleio, "to shut"), is said of glorying in works as a means of justification, Romans 3:27; of Gentiles, who by Judaism would be "excluded" from salvation and Christian fellowship, Galatians 4:17 .
King James Dictionary [2]
Exclu'De, L excludo ex and claudo, to shut. Properly, to thrust out or eject but used as synonymous with preclude.
1. To thrust out to eject as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs. 2. To hinder from entering or admission to shut out as, one body excludes another from occupying the same space. The church ought to exclude immoral men from the communion. 3. To debar to hinder from participation or enjoyment. European nations, in time of peace, exclude our merchants from the commerce of their colonies. In some of the states, no man who pays taxes is excluded from the privilege of voting for representatives. 4. To except not to comprehend or include in a privilege, grant, proposition, argument, description, order, species, genus, &c. in a general sense.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( v. t.) To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.
(2): ( v. t.) To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; - the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.
