ἐκ

ek

Greek G1537 Preposition 915 occurrences in 760 verses
ἐκ out from

ἐκ (ἐξ),

prep. with genitive,

from out of, from (see Addendum, p. 492).

This entry is included here, but in the print version the entry is found on p. 492. ἐκ, before a vowel ἐξ,

prep. with genitive,

of motion outwards, separation from (opposite to εἰς; = Lat. e, ex), from out of, from among, from.

I. Of Place,

1. of motion, out of, forth from, off from: Jhn.6:31, Act.9:3, Gal.1:8, al.; esp. after verbs of motion, Mat.8:28 17:9, Mrk.1:25 7:28, Jhn.1:33 20:1, Act.12:7, 17 27:30, al.; constr. praeg., σώζειν (διας) ἐκ, Ju 5, Act.28:4. Metaphorical, Mat.7:4, 5, 1Pe.2:9; ἐκ τ. χειρός (-ῶν), before genitive of person(s), Luk.1:74, Jhn.10:28, 29, 39, Act.12:4 24:7, Rev.19:2; πίνειν (which see) ἐκ; of the place from which an action proceeds, Luk.5:3 (cf. 12:36, Jhn.13:4, 2Co.2:4).

2. Of change from one place or condition to another: Jhn.8:42, Rom.6:13 13:11, Rev.7:14, al.; with ellips. of verb of motion, 2Ti.2:26, 2Pe.2:21, Rev.2:21, al.

3. Of separation or distinction from a number, before collective or pl. nouns: Mat.13:47, 49, Jhn.12:1, Act.3:15, 1Pe.1:3, al.; after εἷς, Mat.10:29 Luk.17:15, al.; οὐδείς, Jhn.7:19, al.; πολλοί, Jhn.11:19, al.; τις, Luk.11:15, al.; τίς, Mat.6:27, al.; in partitive phrase as subject of sentence, Jhn.16:17; Hebraistically, ἐκ μέσου before genitive, = ἐκ (Heb. מִתּוֹךְ), Mat.13:49, al.

4. Of position or direction (so in cl. = ἔξω): ἐκ δεξιῶν (see: δεξιός); ἐξ ἐναντίας, Mrk.15:39 (metaphorically, Tit.2:8); ἐκ ῥιζῶν (i.e., utterly), Mat.11:20.

II. Of Time,

1. of the point of time from which, from, since: ἐκ γενετῆς, Jhn.9:1, cf. Mrk.10:20, Luk.23:8, Act.24:10, al.

2. Of succession in time: ἐκ δευτέρου, a second time, Mrk.14:72, al., cf. Mat.26:44; ἡμέραν ἐξ ἡμέρας, from day to day, 2Pe.2:8.

III. Of Origin,

1. of nativity, lineage, race: κοίτην (ἐν γαστρί) ἔχειν, Rom.9:10, Mat.1:18; γεννᾶν ἐκ, Mat.1:3ff.; γεννᾶσθαι (γίνεσθαι) ἐκ, Jhn.3:6 8:41, Gal.4:4; ἐκ πνεύματος (θεοῦ), Jhn.1:13 3:5ff., al. ἔρχεσθαι, εἶναι, etc., ἐκ τ. πολέως, Jhn.1:44; φυλῆς, Luk.2:36, al.; τ. ἐξουσίας Ἡρῴδου, Luk.23:7; ὁ ὢν ἐκ τ. γῆς, Jhn.3:31.

2. Of the author, occasion or source: Mat.5:37, Jhn.2:16, Rom.2:29, 1Co.8:6, Gal.5:8, al.; ἐκ (τ. θεοῦ, 1Co.7:7, 2Co.5:1, 1Jn.4:7; ἐκ τ. πατρός, Jhn.6:65, al.; ἐκ τ. γῆς ἐστιν, λαλεῖ, Jhn.3:31; εκ καρδίας, Rom.6:17, cf. Mrk.12:30, 1Ti.1:5; ἐκ ψυχῆς, Eph.6:6, Col.3:23; ἐκ πίστεως, Rom.14:23; κρίνειν ἐκ, Luk.19:22, Rev.20:12.

3. Of the agent, after passive verbs: Mat.15:5, Mrk.7:11, 2Co.2:2, al.; frequently in Re after αδικεῖσθαι (2:11), etc.

4. Of cause, dependence, source of supply: τ. πόνου (των), Rev.16:10, 11; τ. φωνῶν, Rev.8:13; ἐκ τούτου, Jhn.6:66 19:12 (but see Meyer, in ll.); ἐκ θεοῦ λαλεῖν, 2Co.2:17; ἐκ τ. ἀληθείας, Jhn.18:37, 1Jn.3:19; ὁ ἐκ πίστεως, Rom.3:26 4:16; οἱ (ὄντες) ἐκ περιτομῆς, Act.11:2, Rom.4:12, Gal.2:12, Col.4:11; πίνειν ἐκ, Mat.26:29, Mrk.14:25, Jhn.4:13, al.; θερίζειν, Gal.6:8; μετέχειν ἐκ (= partit. genitive), 1Co.10:13; with inf., ἐκ τοῦ ἔχειν, 2Co.8:11.

5. Of material: Mat.27:29, Jhn.2:15 19:2, Rom.9:21, 1Co.11:12, Rev.18:12, al.; allied to which is its use of price (= cl. genitive): Mat.27:7, cf. ib. 20:2, Act.1:18.

IV. By attraction = ἐν (cl.): τὰ ἐκ τ. οἰκιας, Mat.24:17; τ. ἐξ αὐτοῦ δύναμιν, Mrk.5:30 (see Field, in l.); ὁ πατὴρ ὁ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ, Luk.11:13.

V. Adverbial phrases: ἐξ ἀνάγκης, 2Co.9:7, Heb.7:12; ἐξ ἰσότητος, 2Co.8:13; ἐκ μέρους, 1Co.12:27 13:9-12; ἐκ μέτρου, Jhn.3:34; ἐκ συμφώνου, 1Co.7:5.

VI. in composition, ἐκ signifies,

1. procession, removal: ἐκβαίνω, ἐκβάλλω.

2. Opening out, unfolding: ἐκτείνω; metaphorically, ἐξαγγάλλω.

3. Origin: ἔκγονος.

4. Completeness: ἐξαπορέω (see M, Pr., 237), ἐκπληρόω, ἐκτελέω.

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  1. He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

  2. Luke 11:5 ἐξ

    Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose one of you goes to his friend at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

  3. Luke 11:6 ἐξ

    because a friend of mine has come to me on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him.’

  4. What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?

  5. So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

  6. but some of them said, “It is by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons, that He drives out demons.”

  7. And others tested Him by demanding a sign from heaven.

  8. As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and blessed are the breasts that nursed You!”

  9. The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.

  10. Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’

  11. waiting to catch Him in something He might say.

  12. Luke 12:6 ἐξ

    Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.

  13. Someone in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

  14. And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”

  15. Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

  16. Then you will be like servants waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

  17. Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?

  18. In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.

  19. Luke 15:4 ἐξἐξ

    “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

  20. He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

  21. Luke 16:4 ἐκ

    I know what I will do, so that after my removal from management, people will welcome me into their homes.’

  22. Luke 16:9 ἐκ

    I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings.

  23. Then Abraham said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”

  24. Luke 17:7 ἐξἐκ

    Which of you whose servant comes in from plowing or shepherding in the field will say to him, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?

  25. When one of them saw that he was healed, he came back, praising God in a loud voice.

  26. For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will be the Son of Man in His day.

  27. “All these I have kept from my youth,” he said.

  28. His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?

  29. Luke 20:4 ἐξἐξ

    John’s baptism—was it from heaven, or from men?”

  30. Luke 20:5 Ἐξ

    They deliberated among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will ask, ‘Why did you not believe him?’

  31. Luke 20:6 Ἐξ

    But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

  32. But those who are considered worthy to share in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage.

  33. For David himself says in the book of Psalms: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand

  34. Luke 21:4 ἐκἐκ

    For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”

  35. You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.

  36. Yet not even a hair of your head will perish.

  37. Luke 22:3 ἐκ

    Then Satan entered Judas Iscariot, who was one of the Twelve.

  38. Then they began to question among themselves which of them was going to do this.

  39. And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.

  40. A short time later, someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not.”

  41. But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

  42. Luke 23:7 ἐκ

    And learning that Jesus was under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod, who himself was in Jerusalem at that time.

  43. Luke 23:8 ἐξ

    When Herod saw Jesus, he was greatly pleased. He had wanted to see Him for a long time, because he had heard about Him and was hoping to see Him perform a miracle.

  44. Luke 23:33 ἐκἐξ

    When they came to the place called The Skull, they crucified Him there, along with the criminals, one on His right and the other on His left.

  45. The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how His body was placed.

  46. That same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.

  47. Furthermore, some of our women astounded us. They were at the tomb early this morning,

  48. And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

  49. And behold, I am sending the promise of My Father upon you. But remain in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

  50. John 1:13 ἐξἐκἐκἐκ

    children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.

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