ἐκτινάσσω
to shake off
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Middle
- The subject acts on or for itself, or with special interest in the action.
Mood
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 2 times (50%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (25%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1621 appears — 4 distinct verses across 3 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 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Acts 2 verses
- Acts 13:51 ἐκτιναξάμενοι aor mid ptcp nom pl masc But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.
- Acts 18:6 ἐκτιναξάμενος aor mid ptcp nom sg masc When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!"
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.
The Greek verb εκτινασσω centers on the idea of “to shake off.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 4 verses. Acts dominates its distribution — 2 of 4 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 10:14. Related forms include εκ, εκβαλλω and εκβασις. Dig into 4-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1621 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 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 4 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 50%
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: Shake off 2×
- American Standard Version: He shook 1×, Shake off 1×, They shook off 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Shake 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shake off 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1621 across 4 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1621 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1621 across 4 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1621 across 4 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.
- to shake off so that something adhering shall fall
Word origin
Derived from εκ (ek) (G1537) — from.
From G1537 and τινάσσω tinassō (to swing ); to shake violently : - shake (off).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G1621 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐκτινάξατε ektináxate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Matthew 10:14 | 2 |
| ἐκτιναξάμενοι ektinaxámenoi | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 13:51 | 1 |
| ἐκτιναξάμενος ektinaxámenos | Verb, Aorist, Middle, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 18:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1621, 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
- εκβαλλω ekbállō G1544 to cast out
- εκβασις ékbasis G1545 exit
- εκγαμιζω ekgamízō G1547 to give in marriage
- εκγαμισκω ekgamískō G1548 to give in marriage
- εκγονον ékgonon G1549 offspring
- εκδαπαναω ekdapanáō G1550 to spend
- εκδεχομαι ekdéchomai G1551 to receive
- εκδηλος ékdēlos G1552 evident
- εκδημεω ekdēméō G1553 to depart
- εκδιδωμι ekdídōmi G1554 to give out
- εκδιηγεομαι ekdiēgéomai G1555 to relate
- εκδικος ékdikos G1558 without justice
- εκδιωκω ekdiṓkō G1559 to banish
- εκδοτος ékdotos G1560 delivered up
- εκδυω ekdýō G1562 to put off
- εκζητεω ekzētéō G1567 to seek out
- εκθαμβος ékthambos G1569 astonished
- εκθετος ékthetos G1570 exposed
- εκκαθαιρω ekkathaírō G1571 to cleanse
- εκκαιω ekkaíō G1572 to burn
- εκκακεω ekkakéō G1573 to be exhausted
- εκκεντεω ekkentéō G1574 to pierce
- εκκλαω ekkláō G1575 to cut off
- εκκλειω ekkleíō G1576 to shut out
+88 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 114 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εκτινασσω appears 19 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 16 verses in 10 books.
- 19
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 16
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 14:27 ἐκτινάσσω
- Judges 7:19 ἐκτινάσσω
- 2 Samuel 22:33 ἐκτινάσσω
- 1 Kings 5:23 ἐκτινάσσω
- Ezra 14:10 ἐκτινάσσω
- Job 38:13 ἐκτινάσσω
- Psalms 108:23 ἐκτινάσσω
- Isaiah 28:27 ἑκτινάσσω
- Daniel 3:49 ἐκτινάσσω
- Nahum 2:3 ἐκτινάσσω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1621) 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.
- Exodus 14:27 ἐκτινάσσω Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
- Judges 7:19 ἐκτινάσσω So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
- Judges 16:20 ἐκτινάσσω She said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free. But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him.
- 2 Samuel 22:33 ἐκτινάσσω God is my strong fortress; He guides the perfect in his way.
- 1 Kings 5:23 ἐκτινάσσω
- Ezra 14:10 ἐκτινάσσω
- Ezra 15:13 ἐκτινάσσω
- Ezra 15:15 ἐκτινάσσω
- Job 38:13 ἐκτινάσσω That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And shake the wicked out of it?
- Psalms 108:23 ἐκτινάσσω
- Psalms 126:4 ἐκτινάσσω Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh, Like the streams in the Negev.
- Psalms 135:15 ἐκτινάσσω The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
- Isaiah 28:27 ἑκτινάσσω For the dill are not threshed with a sharp [threshing] instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about on the cumin; but the dill are beaten out with a staff, and the cumin with a rod.
- Isaiah 52:2 ἐκτινάσσω Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit [on your throne], Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion.
- Daniel 3:49 ἐκτινάσσω
- Nahum 2:3 ἐκτινάσσω The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1621) 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.
