ἔσωθεν
ésōthen · G2081 · Greek · 12 occurrences
Meanings
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from inside
Extension from a source which is inside
ExamplesMark 7:21 “For from within, out of the hearts of people, come the evil thoughts, acts of sexual immorality, thefts, murders, acts of adultery,
Luke 11:7 and from inside he answers and says, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been shut and my children and I are in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything.’
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within, on the inside
The inner surface of an object
ExamplesMatthew 23:25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence.
Matthew 23:27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.
Matthew 23:28 “So you too, outwardly appear righteous to people, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
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a person’s inner self, the inner being, within oneself
(A figurative extension of meaning of ἔσωθεν ‘from inside,’) The inner being of a person as the source or agent of thought or behavior
ExamplesMatthew 7:15 “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
Mark 7:23 “All these evil things come from within and defile the person.”
Luke 11:39 But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish; but your inside is full of greed and wickedness.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- σύyou 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- γέμωto be full of 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ποιέωto do, to make 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- φόβοςfear 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 2 words
- פְּנִימָה pᵉnîymâh · H6441 · within, inside, inner
- Hebrew פְּנִימָה denotes directional movement toward or location within an interior space, functioning as the Septuagint translators' standard lexical equivalent for Greek ἔσωθεν's 'from inside/within' sense across both spatial and metaphorical contexts.
- פְּנִימִי pᵉnîymîy · H6442 · within, inside, inner
- פְּנִימִי (pᵉnîymîy, H6442) פְּנִימִי denotes the inner/interior spatial location or direction (often as adjective modifying a noun, e.g. 'inner court'), while ἔσωθεν (ésōthen, G2081) ἔσωθεν functions adverbially for 'from inside' or 'within'; both express interiority but differ in syntactic category and directional nuance.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- A person’s inner self, the inner being, within oneself26.2
- In Matthew 23:28, Jesus tells the scribes and Pharisees, “you outwardly appear righteous to people, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness,” naming a person's inner moral self.
- Within, on the inside83.16
- In Luke 11:40, Jesus asks the Pharisees, “did He who made the outside not make the inside also?” the plain spatial sense of the inside of something.
- From inside84.14
- In Mark 7:23, Jesus says, “all these evil things come from within and defile the person,” describing a movement or emanation originating from inside.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ἔσω), adverb of place, from Aeschylus and Herodotus down; (1. adverbially;) a. from…
a. from within (Vulg. de intus, ab intus, intrinsecus, (etc.)): Mk 7:21, Mk 7:23; Lk 11:7; 2 Cor 7:5.
b. within (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 54, 7): Mt 7:15; Mt 23:25, Mt 23:27, Mt 23:28; Rev 4:8; Rev 5:1 (cf. γράφω, 3); ὁ ἔσωθεν ἄνθρωπος, 2 Cor 4:16 R G (see ἔσω, 2); τό ἔσωθεν, that which is within, the inside, Lk 11:40; with the genitive of person equivalent to your soul, Lk 11:39. (2. as a preposition with the genitive (W § 54, 6): Rev 11:2 Rec.st (see ἔξωθεν, 2).)
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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