GreekG1855Preposition

ἔξωθεν

exōthen

12Occurrences
G1855Strong's #
PrepositionPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

external(-ly)

from G1854 (ἔξω);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
adv. (*ἔξω *opposite to ἔσωθεν)
1.prop. (in answer to the question, Whence ?), from without
2.More often (= *ἔξω; *cf. Bl., § 25, 3), without
LXX: for חוּץ

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Preposition

Morphology Code

G:PREP

Full Description

Greek Preposition

Occurrences

ἔξωθεν appears 12 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Matthew
3
Luke
2
Mark
2
Revelation
2
1 Peter
1
1 Timothy
1
2 Corinthians
1

Key Passages

1 Peter 3:3BSB

Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,

2 Corinthians 7:5BSB

For when we arrived in Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were pressed from every direction—conflicts on the outside, fears within.

Luke 11:40BSB

You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well?

Matthew 23:27BSB

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.

Mark 7:15BSB

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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