ἐξωθέω
exōthéō · G1856 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to expel, to drive away
To force someone or something to leave
ExamplesActs 7:45 “Our fathers in turn received it, and they also brought it in with Joshua upon dispossessing the nations that God drove out from our fathers, until the time of David.
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to run aground, to run a ship onto a beach
The movement of a ship being driven ashore
ExamplesActs 27:39 Now when day came, they could not recognize the land; but they did notice a bay with a beach, and they resolved to run the ship onto it if they could.
How it’s used In 5 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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- θεόςGod 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ὅςwho, which, that 1
- πλοῖονboat 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- εἰςto+ ὅςwho, which, that 1
- ἀπόfrom+ πρόσωπονface 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔθνοςnation, Gentiles 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- βουλεύωto purpose 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
- ἐκβάλλω ekbállō · G1544 · to throw out, to jettison (from a boat), to send away
- Common Greek verb for forcible expulsion or casting out, the most frequent synonym for ejecting or driving someone/something out
Contrasting words 2 words
- εἰσάγω eiságō · G1521 · to lead into, to take into, to bring in
- Greek verb meaning to bring or lead into a place, the directional opposite of expelling or driving out
- δέχομαι déchomai · G1209 · to receive, receiving, to accept
- Greek verb meaning to receive or welcome, the conceptual opposite of expelling or driving away
In the other Testament 2 words
- גָּרַשׁ gârash · H1644 · to toss about, to toss up, to cast up
- Hebrew verb for expelling or driving out, the standard translation equivalent for ἐξωθέω in contexts of forcible removal or expulsion
- נָדַח nâdach · H5080 · to be raised, to wield
- Hebrew verb for driving away or thrusting out, semantically overlapping with the expulsion sense of ἐξωθέω
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To expel, to drive away15.45
- This verb describes forcibly removing or expelling something, used of Stephen's account of God driving out the nations before Israel's fathers — "dispossessing the nations that God drove out from our fathers" (Acts 7:45).
- To run aground, to run a ship onto a beach54.17
- It also describes deliberately running a ship onto shore, used of the sailors during Paul's shipwreck resolving to run the ship onto a beach they had spotted — "they resolved to run the ship onto it if they could" (Acts 27:39).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐξώθω: 1 aorist ἐξῶσα (so accented by G T edition 7 Tr, but L WH ἐξῶσα) and in Tdf.…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 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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