let verb

To hinder or stand in the way, the opposite of the modern sense. Only some places in the KJV use it so (he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way); most lets mean allow. Link only the hindering ones.

Hinder, in this sense, survives today only in the tennis let and the legal phrase without let or hindrance.

Proposed by QA reviewer · Oct 19, 2026