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ἐξέρχομαι

to come forth

‘to come forth’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G1831 Strong's Greek
exérchomai Transliteration
/ex-er'-khom-ahee/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 219 appearances

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About this entry

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εξερχομαι (exérchomai) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to come forth.” One archaism survives in the King James Version — “went forth” — where modern Bibles read “went out”; see the renderings breakdown. With 213 verses in 16 books, it is a common word in the Greek New Testament. Debuting at Matthew 2:6, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
come
Modern gloss
to come forth
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G1831 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 →

213
distinct verses
The word appears in 213 distinct verses.
16 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 16 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 2:6
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 2:6.
Revelation 20:8
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 20:8.
#74
by frequency
Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 74 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 213 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 154 · 72%
  • Acts 28 · 13%
  • Pauline Epistles 8 · 4%
  • General Epistles 9 · 4%
  • Revelation 14 · 7%

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 213 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 154 verses · 72%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 69 verses · 32%
  • Johannine 48 verses · 23%
  • Revelation 14 verses · 7%
  • Pauline corpus 8 verses · 4%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 5 verses · 2%
  • Hebrews 4 verses · 2%

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: Went out 18×, Came 16×, Went 15×
  • American Standard Version: Went out 18×, Went forth 15×, Came 14×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Went out 27×, Came 11×, Left 10×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Went out 31×, Having gone out 28×, Came out 17×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1831 across 229 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Went out” 18×
  • “Came” 16×
  • “Went” 15×
  • “Went forth” 13×
  • “He went out” 12×
  • “They went out” 9×
  • “Come” 8×
  • “Departed” 7×
  • “He departed” 6×
  • “Out” 5×
  • “Went ye out” 5×
  • “Depart” 4×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 57 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 1 further occurrence.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1831 across 232 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Went out” 18×
  • “Went forth” 15×
  • “Came” 14×
  • “Went” 13×
  • “He went out” 11×
  • “Come out” 8×
  • “Came forth” 7×
  • “They went out” 7×
  • “Came out” 6×
  • “Go out” 6×
  • “Went ye out” 6×
  • “Go” 5×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 50 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 G1831 across 215 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Went out” 27×
  • “Came” 11×
  • “Left” 10×
  • “Came out” 9×
  • “Come” 8×
  • “He went out” 7×
  • “They went out” 7×
  • “Did you go out” 6×
  • “Went” 6×
  • “Come out” 5×
  • “Leave” 5×
  • “Spread” 5×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 48 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 2 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1831 across 229 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Went out” 31×
  • “Having gone out” 28×
  • “Came out” 17×
  • “Go out” 14×
  • “He went out” 14×
  • “Having come out” 13×
  • “Come out” 11×
  • “They went out” 9×
  • “Did you go out” 6×
  • “Has gone out” 5×
  • “Coming out” 4×
  • “Going out” 4×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 40 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 2 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.

  1. with mention of the place out of which one goes, or the point from which he departs
  2. metaph.

Word origin

Derived from εκ (ek) (G1537) — from.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 13:18,3

From G1537 and G2064 ; to issue (literally or figuratively): - come-(forth out) depart (out of) escape get out go (abroad away forth out thence) proceed (forth) spread abroad.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 42 distinct written forms G1831 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἐξῆλθεν exē̂lthen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 8:34 66
ἐξῆλθον exē̂lthon Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 25:1 21
ἐξελθὼν exelthṑn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 13:1 21
ἐξελθόντες exelthóntes Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 8:32 18
ἔξελθε éxelthe Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Mark 1:25 10
ἐξελθεῖν exeltheîn Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Mark 9:29 9
ἐξήλθατε exḗlthate Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 11:7 5
ἐξεληλύθατε exelēlýthate Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Luke 7:24 4
ἐξερχόμενοι exerchómenoi Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 8:28 4
ἐξῆλθαν exē̂lthan Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Acts 16:40 4
ἐξήρχοντο exḗrchonto Verb, Imperfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Luke 4:41 3
ἐξελθόντα exelthónta Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Neuter Mark 5:13 3
ἐξελθόντος exelthóntos Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Singular, Masculine Mark 5:2 3
ἐξέλθητε exélthēte Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 10:11 3
ἐξέλθῃ exélthē Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 12:43 3
ἐξέρχεται exérchetai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 15:18 3
ἐξελεύσεται exeleúsetai Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 2:6 3
ἐξελεύσονται exeleúsontai Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 8:12 3
ἐξελθοῦσα exelthoûsa Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Matthew 15:22 3
ἐξέλθατε exélthate Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 2 Corinthians 6:17 2
ἐξέλθῃς exélthēs Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 5:26 2
ἐξέρχεσθε exérchesthe Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 25:6 2
ἐξέρχονται exérchontai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 15:19 2
ἐξελήλυθεν exelḗlythen Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 7:29 2
ἐξεληλύθει exelēlýthei Verb, Pluperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 8:2 2
ἐξελθόντων exelthóntōn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Mark 6:54 2
ἐξήλθομεν exḗlthomen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural Acts 16:13 1
ἐξήρχετο exḗrcheto Verb, Imperfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 6:19 1
ἐξεληλυθυῖαν exelēlythyîan Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Luke 8:46 1
ἐξεληλυθός exelēlythós Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Neuter Mark 7:30 1
ἐξεληλυθότας exelēlythótas Verb, Perfect, Active, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine Hebrews 7:5 1
ἐξεληλύθασιν exelēlýthasin Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 John 4:1 1
ἐξελθούσῃ exelthoúsē Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Feminine Revelation 19:21 1
ἐξελθοῦσαι exelthoûsai Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Mark 16:8 1
ἐξελθοῦσαν exelthoûsan Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Feminine Mark 5:30 1
ἐξελθόντι exelthónti Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Dative, Singular, Masculine Luke 8:27 1
ἐξερχομένων exerchoménōn Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Genitive, Plural, Masculine Matthew 9:32 1
ἐξερχόμενος exerchómenos Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 21:37 1
ἐξερχώμεθα exerchṓmetha Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Hebrews 13:13 1
ἐξῆλθες exē̂lthes Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular John 16:30 1
Ἐξερχόμενοι Exerchómenoi Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 27:32 1
Ἐξῆλθεν Exē̂lthen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 19:4 1

Same root — word family


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word εξερχομαι appears 580 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 546 verses in 34 books.

580
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
546
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
34 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 34 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1831) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 546. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

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