ἐκεῖθεν
thence
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G1564 appears — 27 distinct verses across 6 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 12 verses
- Matthew 4:21 ἐκεῖθεν adv Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them.
- Matthew 5:26 ἐκεῖθεν adv Most assuredly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.
- Matthew 9:9 ἐκεῖθεν adv As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, "Follow me." He got up and followed him.
- Matthew 9:27 ἐκεῖθεν adv As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, "Have mercy on us, son of David!"
- Matthew 11:1 ἐκεῖθεν adv It happened that when Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.
- Matthew 12:9 ἐκεῖθεν adv He departed there, and went into their synagogue.
- Matthew 12:15 ἐκεῖθεν adv Jesus, perceiving that, withdrew from there. Great multitudes followed him; and he healed them all,
- Matthew 13:53 ἐκεῖθεν adv It happened that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.
- Matthew 14:13 ἐκεῖθεν adv Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.
- Matthew 15:21 ἐκεῖθεν adv Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.
- Matthew 15:29 ἐκεῖθεν adv Jesus departed there, and came near to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and sat there.
- Matthew 19:15 ἐκεῖθεν adv He laid his hands on them, and departed from there.
Mark 5 verses
- Mark 6:1 ἐκεῖθεν adv He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him.
- Mark 6:10 ἐκεῖθεν adv He said to them, "Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you depart from there.
- Mark 6:11 ἐκεῖθεν adv Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!"
- Mark 7:24 Ἐκεῖθεν adv From there he arose, and went away into the borders of Tyre and Sidon. He entered into a house, and didn't want anyone to know it, but he couldn't escape notice.
- Mark 10:1 ἐκεῖθεν adv He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them.
Luke 3 verses
- Luke 9:4 ἐκεῖθεν adv Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there.
- Luke 12:59 ἐκεῖθεν adv I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny."
- Luke 16:26 ἐκεῖθεν adv Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'
John 2 verses
Acts 4 verses
- Acts 13:4 ἐκεῖθέν adv So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.
- Acts 18:7 ἐκεῖθεν adv He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.
- Acts 20:13 ἐκεῖθεν adv But we who went ahead to the ship set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had so arranged, intending himself to go by land.
- Acts 27:12 ἐκεῖθεν adv Because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised going to sea from there, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there, which is a port of Crete, looking northeast and southeast.
Revelation 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, εκειθεν (ekeîthen) means “thence.” Translators differ — “thence” in the King James Version, then “there” (Berean Standard Bible), as the renderings breakdown shows. With 27 verses in 6 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Matthew (44% of all occurrences). First canonically at Matthew 4:21, it enters the text early. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1564 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 27
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 27 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #500
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 500 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 27 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 27 distinct verses.
- Gospels 22 verses · 81%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 7 verses · 26%
- Johannine 3 verses · 11%
- Revelation 1 verse · 4%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Thence 23×
- American Standard Version: Thence 23×
- Berean Standard Bible: There 10×, Place 5×, Area 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: There 25×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1564 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1564 across 29 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1564 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 8 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1564 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- thence, from that place
Word origin
Derived from εκει (ekeî) (G1563) — there.
From G1563 ; thence : - from that place (from) thence there.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G1564 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐκεῖθεν ekeîthen | Adverb | Matthew 4:21 | 25 |
| ἐκεῖθέν ekeîthén | Adverb | Acts 13:4 | 1 |
| Ἐκεῖθεν Ekeîthen | Adverb | Mark 7:24 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1564, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εκειθεν appears 122 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 114 verses in 20 books.
- 122
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 114
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 20 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 20 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:10 ἐκεῖθεν
- Exodus 25:22 ἐκεῖθεν
- Numbers 13:23 ἐκεῖθεν
- Deuteronomy 5:15 ἐκεῖθεν
- Joshua 4:5 ἐκεῖθεν
- Judges 1:11 ἐκεῖθεν
- 1 Samuel 4:4 ἐκεῖθεν
- 2 Samuel 6:2 ἐκεῖθεν
- 1 Kings 1:45 ἐκεῖθεν
- 2 Kings 2:21 ἐκεῖθεν
- 1 Chronicles 13:6 ἐκεῖθεν
- 2 Chronicles 8:18 ἐκεῖθεν
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1564) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 114. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:10 ἐκεῖθεν A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.
- Genesis 10:14 ἐκεῖθεν Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
- Genesis 11:8 ἐκεῖθεν So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
- Genesis 11:9 ἐκεῖθεν Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
- Genesis 12:8 ἐκεῖθεν He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.
- Genesis 18:16 ἐκεῖθεν The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
- Genesis 18:22 ἐκεῖθεν The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.
- Genesis 20:1 ἐκεῖθεν Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foriegner in Gerar.
- Genesis 24:4 ἐκεῖθεν But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
- Genesis 24:5 ἐκεῖθεν The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"
- Genesis 24:7 ἐκεῖθεν Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
- Genesis 24:38 ἐκεῖθεν but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'
- Genesis 26:17 ἐκεῖθεν Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
- Genesis 26:21 ἐκεῖθεν They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called the name of it Sitnah.
- Genesis 26:22 ἐκεῖθεν He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."
- Genesis 26:23 ἐκεῖθεν He went up from there to Beersheba.
- Genesis 27:9 ἐκεῖθεν Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good kids of the goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
- Genesis 27:45 ἐκεῖθεν until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"
- Genesis 28:2 ἐκεῖθεν Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
- Genesis 28:6 ἐκεῖθεν Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"
- Genesis 30:32 ἐκεῖθεν I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. This will be my hire.
- Genesis 42:26 ἐκεῖθεν They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.
- Genesis 49:24 ἐκεῖθεν But his bow abode in strength, The arms of his hands were made strong, By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (From there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
- Exodus 25:22 ἐκεῖθεν There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
- Exodus 29:42 ἐκεῖθεν It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
- Exodus 30:6 ἐκεῖθεν You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.
- Exodus 30:36 ἐκεῖθεν and you shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.
- Numbers 13:23 ἐκεῖθεν They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two; [they brought] also of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
- Numbers 13:24 ἐκεῖθεν That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from there.
- Numbers 13:25 ἐκεῖθεν They returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
- Numbers 21:12 ἐκεῖθεν From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
- Numbers 21:13 ἐκεῖθεν From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
- Numbers 21:16 ἐκεῖθεν From there they traveled to Beer: that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
- Numbers 22:41 ἐκεῖθεν It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.
- Numbers 23:13 ἐκεῖθεν Balak said to him, Please come with me to another place, from whence you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all: and curse me them from there.
- Numbers 23:27 ἐκεῖθεν Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; peradventure it will please God that you may curse me them from there.
- Deuteronomy 5:15 ἐκεῖθεν You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
- Deuteronomy 6:21 ἐκεῖθεν then you shall tell your son, We were Pharaoh's bondservants in Egypt: and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;
- Deuteronomy 6:23 ἐκεῖθεν and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore to our fathers.
- Deuteronomy 9:28 ἐκεῖθεν lest the land whence you brought us out say, Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.
- Deuteronomy 10:7 ἐκεῖθεν From there they traveled to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.
- Deuteronomy 11:10 ἐκεῖθεν For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn't as the land of Egypt, from whence you came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;
- Deuteronomy 15:15 ἐκεῖθεν You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.
- Deuteronomy 19:12 ἐκεῖθεν then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
- Deuteronomy 24:18 ἐκεῖθεν but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing.
- Deuteronomy 30:4 ἐκεῖθεν If [any of] your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will Yahweh your God gather you, and from there will he bring you back:
- Joshua 4:5 ἐκεῖθεν and Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of Yahweh your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up every man of you a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;
- Joshua 6:22 ἐκεῖθεν Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out there the woman, and all that she has, as you swore to her.
- Joshua 15:14 ἐκεῖθεν Caleb drove out there the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
- Joshua 15:15 ἐκεῖθεν He went up there against the inhabitants of Debir: now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1564) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
