ἔξω
exō
out/outside(r)
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe word "exō" (G1854) is a Greek preposition with a primary meaning of "out" or "outside." Its occurrence in the Bible is 65 times, indicating its significance in the Greek text. The word is often used to describe a spatial relationship, placing something or someone beyond a boundary or beyond a particular area. "Exō" is used in a variety of contexts, such as describing the location of an object (e.g., a door or a wall), a person's presence (e.g., outside the city or outside the house), or a physical action (e.g., throwing something out or stepping outside). In some cases, the word may convey a sense of separation or distance from a particular entity or location. The ubiquity of "exō" in the Bible highlights its importance in conveying spatial relationships and boundaries. Its frequent usage helps to create a vivid picture of the physical environments and social interactions in the biblical text, providing valuable insight into the cultural and societal context in which the stories were written.
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Occurrences in Scripture
65 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.
Matthew 10:14Whoever doesn’t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.
Matthew 12:46While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.
Matthew 12:47One said to him, “Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you.”
Matthew 13:48which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.
Matthew 21:17He left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there.
Matthew 21:39So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
Matthew 26:69Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, “You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!”
Matthew 26:75Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” Then he went out and wept bitterly.
Mark 1:45But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places. People came to him from everywhere.
Mark 3:31His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.
Mark 3:32A multitude was sitting around him, and they told him, “Behold, your mother, your brothers, and your sisters are outside looking for you.”
Mark 4:11He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,
Mark 5:10He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
Mark 8:23He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spat on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.
Mark 11:4They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him.
Mark 11:19When evening came, he went out of the city.
Mark 12:8They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
Mark 14:68But he denied it, saying, “I neither know, nor understand what you are saying.” He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed.
Luke 1:10The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.
Luke 4:29They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.
Luke 8:20Some people told him, “Your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you.”
Luke 8:54But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called, saying, “Child, arise!”
Luke 13:25When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’
Luke 13:28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.
Luke 13:33Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can’t be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.’
Luke 14:35It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Luke 20:15They threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?
Luke 22:62He went out, and wept bitterly.
Luke 24:50He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
John 6:37All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
John 9:34They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.
John 9:35Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
John 11:43When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
John 12:31Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
John 15:6If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
John 18:16but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter.
John 18:29Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
John 19:4Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
John 19:5Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”
John 19:13When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”
John 20:11But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,
Acts 4:15But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,
Acts 5:23“We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”
Acts 5:34But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.
Acts 7:58They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Acts 9:40Peter sent them all out, and knelt down and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
Acts 14:19But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
Acts 16:13On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.
Acts 16:30brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”