Chapter 1

What Is Anagkazo?

...Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel [anagkazo] them to come in, that my house may be filled. Luke 14:23

Anagkazo simply means “to compel”. It also means to necessitate, to drive, and to constrain by all means such as force, threats, persuasion and entreaties.

Sometimes we need to go back to the Greek in order to understand the original meanings of some Bible words. You see, the New Testament was translated from the Greek language and the Old Testament from the Hebrew language. Anagkazo is the Greek word that is translated “to compel”.

Although this is a book on anagkazo, I also want to share on another closely related Greek word, “Biazo”. This is because the revelation of anagkazo is very much linked to the revelation in the word biazo.