ἀναγκάζω

Matthew 14:22 ἠνάγκασεν He compelled

Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of Him to the other side, while He dismissed the crowds.

Here: 'He compelled.' This is a strong word. It suggests insistence, and possibly that the disciples were reluctant to leave. Jesus does not merely suggest that they go. He pushes them off.

Mark 6:45 ἠνάγκασεν He compelled

Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of Him to Bethsaida, while He dismissed the crowd.

Here: A strong word. Jesus doesn't just suggest that they leave. He makes them go, which suggests either reluctance on their part or real urgency on his.

Luke 14:23 ἀνάγκασον do compel [them]

So the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.

Here: A decisive command: 'make them', 'press them hard'. In a hospitality scene with one servant facing strangers who would expect to be turned away, it means insisting and refusing to take no for an answer, not physical force. The Greek has no object here; 'them' is understood.

Acts 26:11 ἠνάγκαζον I was compelling [them]

I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.

Here: An imperfect, a past tense for ongoing or repeated action. Here it most likely means 'I kept trying to force'. The grammar describes the pressure and does not say whether it worked.

Acts 28:19 ἠναγκάσθην I was compelled

But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, even though I have no charge to bring against my nation.

2 Corinthians 12:11 ἠναγκάσατε. compelled.

I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

Here: "You forced me." The aorist tense points to what the Corinthians actually did: they stayed silent and let the rival teachers run Paul down, which left him no choice but to defend himself. The verb shares a root with "hardships" (anankai) in the previous verse.

Galatians 2:3 ἠναγκάσθη was compelled

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

Here: "Was compelled", pressed from outside by force or by heavy social and religious pressure. The form states a settled outcome and names no one as the agent. It leaves room for the idea that someone tried, and it reports that the attempt did not succeed.

Galatians 2:14 ἀναγκάζεις do you compel

When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Here: Present tense with the sense "you are in effect forcing." Peter gave no order. But by withdrawing, he left Gentiles one way back to the shared table: adopt Jewish practice.

Galatians 6:12 ἀναγκάζουσιν compel

Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.

Here: Present tense of an action still under way and not yet finished: "are trying to compel". It means strong pressure (social, theological, communal), not physical force. It echoes 2:3 (Titus was not compelled to be circumcised) and 2:14 (Peter compelling gentiles to live like Jews).