ἔξωθεν exōthen

Greek word for “outside” · Strong’s G1855 · used 13 times in 12 verses

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Meaning

ἔξωθεν; adv. (ἔξω opposite to ἔσωθεν);

How it is translated

Glosses given for exōthen in context, with how often each is used:

• outside 12
• outward 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Matthew 23 (3), Mark 7 (2), Luke 11 (2), 2 Corinthians 7 (1), 1 Timothy 3 (1), 1 Peter 3 (1), Revelation 11 (1), Revelation 14 (1)

Forms

• ἔξωθεν 13

Words used with it

Words that share verses with exōthen more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ἔσωθεν esōthen “inwardly” 6
• γέμω gemō “be full” 3
• ἁρπαγή harpagē “plunder” 2
• πατέω pateō “to trample” 2
• Φαρισαῖος Pharisaios “Pharisee” 3
• κοινόω koinoō “to profane” 2
• ὑποκριτής hupokritēs “hypocrite” 2
• εἰσπορεύω eisporeuō “to enter” 2
• ποτήριον potērion “cup” 2
• καθαρίζω katharizō “to clean” 2
• φαίνω phainō “to shine/appear” 2
• οὐαί ouai “woe!” 2

Key verses

The verses using exōthen that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 23:25 — Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
• Matthew 23:27 — Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead…
• Matthew 23:28 — Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
• Mark 7:15 — There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
• Mark 7:18 — And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile…
• Luke 11:39 — And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
• Luke 11:40 — Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
• 2 Corinthians 7:5 — For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
• 1 Timothy 3:7 — Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
• 1 Peter 3:3 — Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
• Revelation 11:2 — But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty…
• Revelation 14:20 — And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.