Word

ἐκτινάσσω

ektinássō · G1621 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

to shake off, to shake out, to shake from

To shake something out or off, in order to get rid of an object or a substance

Examples
Matthew 10:14 “And whoever does not receive you nor listen to your words, as you leave that house or city, shake the dust off your feet.
Mark 6:11 “Any place that does not receive you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake the dust off the soles of your feet as a testimony against them.”
Acts 13:51 But they shook off the dust from their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

4 occurrences in 2 groups

Not stated: you (more than one) 2
Not stated (participle) 2

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

4 occurrences in 3 groups

κονιορτόςdust 2
ἱμάτιονclothing 1
χόοςdust 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

εἰςto+ μαρτύριονtestimony, witness 1
ἐπίon+ αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

ἀποτινάσσω apotinássō · G660 · to shake off, to shake out, to shake from: ἀποτινάσσω (“to brush off”) and the target term both denote removing something by shaking, differing perhaps in register or intensity — forceful versus neutral shaking — within the same core sense of shaking something off.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To shake off, to shake out, to shake from16.8: Used in Matthew 10:14 and its parallel Mark 6:11, in Jesus' instruction to shake the dust off one's feet when leaving a house or town that does not welcome the disciples, and in Acts 13:51, where Paul and Barnabas do exactly this at Antioch of Pisidia.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist imperative ἐκτινάξατε; 1 aorist middle participle ἐκτιναξάμενος; to shake off,…

: 1 aorist imperative ἐκτινάξατε; 1 aorist middle participle ἐκτιναξάμενος; to shake off, so that something adhering shall fall: τόν χοῦν, Mk 6:11; τόν κονιορτόν, Mt 10:14 (where the genitive τῶν ποδῶν does not depend on the verb but on the substantive (L T WH marginal reading, however, insert ἐκ)); by this symbolic act a person expresses extreme contempt for another and refuses to have any further contact with him (B. D. American edition under the word ); middle to shake off for (the cleansing of) oneself: τόν κονιορτόν... ἐπί τινα, against one, Acts 13:51; τά ἱμάτια, dust from garments, Acts 18:6; (cf. B. D. as above; Neh 5:13). (to knock out, τούς ὀδόντας, Homer, Iliad 16, 348; Plutarch, Cat. maj. 14.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Non-Linear Movement4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0