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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

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."