ἔκστασις
displacement
‘displacement’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 verse where G1611 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Acts. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Acts
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, εκστασις (ékstasis) means “displacement.” The word gravitates to Acts (57%), then Mark and Luke. It turns up in 7 verses across 3 books, an uncommon footprint. Scripture first uses it in Mark 5:42. Catalogued under 3 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Dig into 7-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1611 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 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 7 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 71%
- Gospels 3 verses · 43%
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: Trance 3×
- American Standard Version: Amazement 3×, Trance 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Trance 3×, Amazement 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Amazement 4×, Trance 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1611 across 7 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 G1611 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1611 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1611 across 8 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 3 senses 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.
- any casting down of a thing from its proper place or state, displacement
- a throwing of the mind out of its normal state…
- amazement…
Word origin
Derived from εξιστημι (exístēmi) (G1839) — to displace.
From G1839 ; a displacement of the mind that is bewilderment ecstasy : - + be amazed amazement astonishment trance.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G1611 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐκστάσει ekstásei | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Mark 5:42 | 3 |
| ἔκστασις ékstasis | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Mark 16:8 | 3 |
| ἐκστάσεως ekstáseōs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Acts 3:10 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εκστασις appears 27 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 26 verses in 13 books.
- 27
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 26
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:21 ἔκστασις
- Numbers 13:32 ἔκστασις
- Deuteronomy 28:28 ἔκστασις
- 1 Samuel 11:7 ἔκστασις
- 2 Kings 4:13 ἔκστασις
- 2 Chronicles 14:13 ἔκστασις
- Psalms 30:1 ἔκστασις
- Proverbs 26:10 ἔκστασις
- Jeremiah 5:30 ἔκστασις
- Ezekiel 26:16 ἔκστασις
- Daniel 7:28 ἔκστασις
- Habakkuk 3:14 ἔκστασις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1611) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:21 ἔκστασις Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
- Genesis 15:12 ἔκστασις When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
- Genesis 27:33 ἔκστασις Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."
- Numbers 13:32 ἔκστασις They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up the inhabitants of it; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.
- Deuteronomy 28:28 ἔκστασις Yahweh will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;
- 1 Samuel 11:7 ἔκστασις He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, Whoever doesn't come forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. The dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out as one man.
- 1 Samuel 14:15 ἔκστασις There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled; and the earth quaked: so there was an exceeding great trembling.
- 2 Kings 4:13 ἔκστασις He said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? would you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? She answered, I dwell among my own people.
- 2 Chronicles 14:13 ἔκστασις Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and there fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh, and before his host; and they carried away very much booty.
- 2 Chronicles 15:5 ἔκστασις In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great vexations were on all the inhabitants of the lands.
- 2 Chronicles 17:10 ἔκστασις The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
- 2 Chronicles 20:29 ἔκστασις The fear of God was on all the kingdoms of the countries, when they heard that Yahweh fought against the enemies of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 29:8 ἔκστασις Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.
- Psalms 30:1 ἔκστασις I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, And have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
- Psalms 30:23 ἔκστασις
- Psalms 67:28 ἔκστασις
- Psalms 115:2 ἔκστασις Why should the nations say, "Where is their God, now?"
- Proverbs 26:10 ἔκστασις As an archer who wounds all, So is he who hires a fool Or he who hires those who pass by.
- Jeremiah 5:30 ἔκστασις A wonderful and horrible thing is happen in the land:
- Ezekiel 26:16 ἔκστασις Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit on the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.
- Ezekiel 27:35 ἔκστασις All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their face.
- Ezekiel 32:10 ἔκστασις Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.
- Daniel 7:28 ἔκστασις Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
- Habakkuk 3:14 ἔκστασις You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, Gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
- Zechariah 12:4 ἔκστασις In that day," says Yahweh, "I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
- Zechariah 14:13 ἔκστασις It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh will be among them; and they will lay hold everyone on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1611) 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.
