'Prevents' in the Bible

As they went along the road they came to some water; and the eunuch *said, “Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?”

And they have been appointed priests many in number, because death prevents their continuance in office:

For this reason, if I come, I will bring to remembrance his works which he does, babbling against us with wicked words; and not content with these, neither does he himself receive the brethren; and those who would he prevents, and casts them out of the assembly.