ἐξαιρέω
exairéō · G1807 · Greek · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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to take out, to remove
To take something out of its place
ExamplesMatthew 5:29 “Now if your right eye is causing you to sin, tear it out and throw it away from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Matthew 18:9 “And if your eye is causing you to sin, tear it out and throw it away from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fiery hell.
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to set free, to rescue, to deliver
To rescue or set someone free from danger
ExamplesActs 7:10 and rescued him from all his afflictions, and granted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and his entire household.
Acts 7:34 ‘I HAVE CERTAINLY SEEN THE OPPRESSION OF MY PEOPLE WHO ARE IN EGYPT, AND HAVE HEARD THEIR GROANING, AND I HAVE COME DOWN TO RESCUE THEM; AND NOW COME, I WILL SEND YOU TO EGYPT.’
Acts 12:11 When Peter came to himself, he said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent forth His angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.”
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to choose
To choose out from among
ExamplesActs 26:17 rescuing you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,
How it’s used In 4 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
8 occurrences in 5 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 3
- Not stated: you (one person) 2
- Not stated: I 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
- Not stated in the clause 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
8 occurrences in 4 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 4
- ἐγώI, we 2
- ἀνήρman, husband 1
- σύyou 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 5 groups
- ἐκfrom+ αἰώνage, forever 1
- ἐκfrom+ θλῖψιςtribulation, affliction 1
- ἐκfrom+ προσδοκίαexpectation 1
- ἐκfrom+ χείρhand 1
- κατάaccording to, against, down+ θέλημαwill, desire 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἴδωto know 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- נָצַל nâtsal · H5337 · remove (violently), to pluck out, to snatch from
- Hebrew נָצַל (nâtsal, H5337) encompasses rescue, deliverance, and stripping/plucking actions, aligning with Greek ἐξαιρέω's (ἐξαιρέω (exairéō, G1807)) core sense of extracting or selecting out from danger or a larger group, with both terms sharing the semantic domain of forceful removal or rescue.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- To set free, to rescue, to deliver21.17
- This verb, in its middle voice, describes rescuing or delivering someone from danger, used of God rescuing Joseph from all his afflictions in Egypt — "rescued him from all his afflictions, and granted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh" (Acts 7:10).
- To choose30.90
- In its middle-voice usage the same verb also carries the sense of taking someone out for oneself by choice, the same underlying action of deliverance viewed as a deliberate selection, used of the risen Christ's commission to Paul describing his rescue of Paul from among his own people and the Gentiles to whom he was being sent — "rescuing you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you" (Acts 26:17).
- To take out, to remove85.43
- In its active voice it more literally describes physically removing or plucking something out, used of Jesus' instruction to pluck out an offending right eye rather than have the whole body cast into hell — "tear it out and throw it away from you" (Matthew 5:29).
Word family 28 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐξαίρω: 2 aorist imperative ἔξελε; middle (present participle ἐξαιρούμενος); 2 aorist…
1. to pluck out, draw out, i. e. to root out: τόν ὀφθαλμόν, Mt 5:29; Mt 18:9.
2. Middle a. to choose out (for oneself), select, one person from many: Acts 26:17 (so for בָּחַר in Isa 49:7 (but there the Sept. has ἐξελεξάμην; perhaps Isa 48:10 is meant) and sometimes in Greek writings; first in Homer, Odyssey 14, 232) (others refer Acts, the passage cited to the next head; (see Hackett at the passage)).
b. to rescue, deliver (properly, to cause to be rescued, but the middle force is lost (cf. Winer's Grammar, 253 (238))): τινα, Acts 7:34; Acts 23:27; τινα ἐκ τίνος, Acts 7:10; Acts 12:11; Gal 1:4; (Ex 3:8, etc.; Aeschylus suppl. 924; Herodotus 3, 137; Demosthenes, 256, 3; Polybius 1, 11, 11).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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
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