ἐκφέρω
to bring forth
‘to bring forth’ 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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
2 verses where G1627 appears in the Aorist tense 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
- Acts 5:6 ἐξενέγκαντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him.
- Acts 5:10 ἐξενέγκαντες aor act ptcp nom pl masc She fell down immediately at his feet, and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.
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.
εκφερω — transliterated ekphérō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to bring forth.” More than half of its appearances fall in Acts. The Greek New Testament uses it across 8 verses — uncommon. It first appears in Mark 8:23. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. See the sense tree, 8-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1627 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 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 8 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 63%
- Gospels 2 verses · 25%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 13%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 13%
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: Out 2×
- American Standard Version: Out 4×, They carried 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Carried out 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Out 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1627 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 G1627 across 10 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1627 across 8 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1627 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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.
- to carry out, to bear forth
- to bring i.e. lead out
- to bring forth, i.e. produce
Word origin
Derived from εκ (ek) (G1537) — from.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G1627 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐξενέγκαντες exenénkantes | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 5:6 | 2 |
| ἐκφέρειν ekphérein | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | Acts 5:15 | 1 |
| ἐκφέρουσα ekphérousa | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 6:8 | 1 |
| ἐξήνεγκεν exḗnenken | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Mark 8:23 | 1 |
| ἐξενέγκατε exenénkate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Luke 15:22 | 1 |
| ἐξενεγκεῖν exenenkeîn | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | 1 Timothy 6:7 | 1 |
| ἐξοίσουσίν exoísousín | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 5:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1627, 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 εκφερω appears 77 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 76 verses in 24 books.
- 77
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 76
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 24 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 24 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:12 ἐκφέρω
- Exodus 4:6 ἐκφέρω
- Leviticus 4:12 ἐκφέρω
- Numbers 13:32 ἐκφέρω
- Deuteronomy 14:28 ἐκφέρω
- Joshua 7:23 ἐκφέρω
- Judges 6:18 ἐκφέρω
- Ruth 2:18 ἐκφέρω
- 2 Samuel 12:30 ἐκφέρω
- 1 Kings 17:13 ἐκφέρω
- 2 Kings 10:22 ἐκφέρω
- 1 Chronicles 9:28 ἐκφέρω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1627) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 76. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:12 ἐκφέρω The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 14:18 ἐκφέρω Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.
- Genesis 24:53 ἐκφέρω The servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
- Genesis 38:28 ἐκφέρω It happened, when she travailed, that one put out a hand: and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first."
- Exodus 4:6 ἐκφέρω Yahweh said furthermore to him, "Now put your hand inside your cloak." He put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.
- Exodus 4:7 ἐκφέρω He said, "Put your hand inside your cloak again." He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.
- Exodus 12:39 ἐκφέρω They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, neither had they prepared for themselves any food.
- Exodus 12:46 ἐκφέρω In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it.
- Leviticus 4:12 ἐκφέρω even the whole bull shall he carry forth outside the camp to a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire. Where the ashes are poured out it shall be burned.
- Leviticus 4:21 ἐκφέρω He shall carry forth the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.
- Leviticus 6:4 ἐκφέρω then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,
- Leviticus 14:45 ἐκφέρω He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house's mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.
- Leviticus 16:27 ἐκφέρω The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried forth outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.
- Leviticus 26:10 ἐκφέρω You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.
- Numbers 13:32 ἐκφέρω 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.
- Numbers 14:36 ἐκφέρω The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,
- Numbers 17:23 ἐκφέρω
- Numbers 17:24 ἐκφέρω
- Numbers 20:8 ἐκφέρω Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak you to the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their cattle drink.
- Deuteronomy 14:28 ἐκφέρω At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:
- Deuteronomy 22:15 ἐκφέρω then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;
- Deuteronomy 22:19 ἐκφέρω and they shall fine him one hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
- Deuteronomy 24:11 ἐκφέρω You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you.
- Deuteronomy 28:38 ἐκφέρω You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.
- Joshua 7:23 ἐκφέρω They took them from the midst of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to all the children of Israel; and they laid them down before Yahweh.
- Joshua 18:6 ἐκφέρω You shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring [the description] here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.
- Joshua 18:8 ἐκφέρω The men arose, and went: and Joshua charged those who went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh in Shiloh.
- Judges 6:18 ἐκφέρω Please don't go away, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and lay it before you. He said, I will wait until you come again.
- Judges 6:19 ἐκφέρω Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.
- Judges 6:30 ἐκφέρω Then the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was by it.
- Ruth 2:18 ἐκφέρω She took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth and gave to her that which she had left after she was sufficed.
- 2 Samuel 12:30 ἐκφέρω He took the crown of their king from off his head; and the weight of it was a talent of gold, and [in it were] precious stones; and it was set on David's head. He brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.
- 1 Kings 17:13 ἐκφέρω Elijah said to her, Don't be afraid; go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it forth to me, and afterward make for you and for your son.
- 1 Kings 21:42 ἐκφέρω
- 2 Kings 10:22 ἐκφέρω He said to him who was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. He brought them forth vestments.
- 2 Kings 10:26 ἐκφέρω They brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them.
- 2 Kings 15:20 ἐκφέρω Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn't stay there in the land.
- 2 Kings 23:6 ἐκφέρω He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust of it on the graves of the common people.
- 2 Kings 24:13 ἐκφέρω He carried out there all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had said.
- 1 Chronicles 9:28 ἐκφέρω Certain of them had charge of the vessels of service; for by count were these brought in and by count were these taken out.
- 1 Chronicles 20:2 ἐκφέρω David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set on David's head: and he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.
- 2 Chronicles 34:14 ἐκφέρω When they brought out the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of Yahweh [given] by Moses.
- Ezra 1:7 ἐκφέρω Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of Yahweh, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;
- Ezra 1:8 ἐκφέρω even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
- Ezra 5:14 ἐκφέρω The gold and silver vessels also of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
- Ezra 6:5 ἐκφέρω Also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored, and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, everyone to its place; and you shall put them in the house of God.
- Ezra 8:17 ἐκφέρω I sent them forth to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what they should tell Iddo, [and] his brothers the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.
- Ezra 10:19 ἐκφέρω They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, [they offered] a ram of the flock for their guilt.
- Ezra 15:11 ἐκφέρω
- Ezra 16:19 ἐκφέρω
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1627) 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.
