'Preventing' in the Bible

Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.

Even with words like these they had difficulty in preventing the thronging crowd from offering sacrifices to them.

among them the god of this world [Satan] has blinded the minds of the unbelieving to prevent them from seeing the illuminating light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.