ἔξωθεν
exōthen
“outside”
Definition
external(-ly)
from G1854 (ἔξω);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Preposition
G:PREP
Greek Preposition
Occurrences
ἔξωθεν appears 12 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,
For when we arrived in Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were pressed from every direction—conflicts on the outside, fears within.
You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well?
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him.”
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