anagkazo describes pressing or requiring someone to take a specified action, including boarding, appealing, or undergoing circumcision.

The attested use describes pressure that brings, or seeks to bring, someone to a specified action: disciples are made to enter a boat, people are pressed to come in, opponents seek to make others blaspheme or be circumcised, and a disputed situation leaves a speaker required to appeal to Caesar.

1. Pressing someone into a specified action · dominant

   The active forms place pressure on another person to act: in Mark 6:45 and Matthew 14:22 the APB renders the action as making the disciples get into the boat, while Galatians 6:12 concerns making people undergo circumcision. The passive forms in Acts 28:19 and Galatians 2:3 present the affected person as required to appeal or as not required to be circumcised; Luke 14:23 uses an aorist active imperative in the command to bring people in.

   Mark 6:45Matthew 14:22Galatians 6:12Acts 28:19Galatians 2:3Luke 14:23

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly uses "compelled" or "compel," and in Acts 26:11 it says "tried to force them"; Luke 14:23 instead says "urge people to come in." These are presentations of their respective clauses rather than fixed translations of the term.