Dictionaries :: Enjoin

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Enjoin:

en-join':

Its usual sense is "to impose something," as a command, a charge or a direction. In this last sense it is used in Job 36:23, i.e. "Who hath directed?" In Es 9:31 it means "to command"; in Phm 1:8, "to order" or "direct."

King James Dictionary

Enjoin: To Command; Charge.

For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath ENJOINED unto you. (Hebrews 9:19-20)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Enjoin:

is translated "hath enjoined" in the AV of Hbr 9:20.
See COMMAND (RV).

Enjoin:

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