ἐξέρχομαι
to come forth
‘to come forth’ is one of 2 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).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Pluperfect
- A past action completed before another past point (“had written”).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G1831 appears in the Book of John — 30 distinct verses. 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.
John
- John 1:44 ἐξελθεῖν aor act inf Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.
- John 4:30 ἐξῆλθον aor act ind 3pl They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
- John 4:43 ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee.
- John 8:9 ἐξήρχοντο impf mid/pass.dep ind 3sg They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
- John 8:42 ἐξῆλθον aor act ind 1sg Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me.
- John 8:59 ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the midst of them, and so passed by.
- John 10:9 ἐξελεύσεται fut mid.dep ind 3sg I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
- John 10:39 ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.
- John 11:31 ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there."
- John 11:44 ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go."
- John 12:13 ἐξῆλθον aor act ind 3pl they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet him, and cried out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!"
- John 13:3 ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came forth from God, and was going to God,
- John 13:30 ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg Therefore, having received that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night.
- John 13:31 ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
- John 16:27 ἐξῆλθον aor act ind 1sg for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.
- John 16:28 ἐξῆλθον aor act ind 1sg I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."
- John 16:30 ἐξῆλθες aor act ind 2sg Now we know that you know all things, and don't need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came forth from God."
- John 17:8 ἐξῆλθον aor act ind 1sg for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came forth from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
- John 18:1 ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.
- John 18:4 ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went forth, and said to them, "Who are you looking for?"
- John 18:16 ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter.
- John 18:29 ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?"
- John 18:38 ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.
- John 19:4 Ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him."
- John 19:5 ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"
- John 19:17 ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called "The Place of a Skull," which is called in Hebrew, "Golgotha,"
- John 19:34 ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
- John 20:3 ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb.
- John 21:3 ἐξῆλθον aor act ind 3pl Simon Peter said to them, "I'm going fishing." They told him, "We are also coming with you." They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.
- John 21:23 ἐξῆλθεν aor act ind 3sg This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn't die. Yet Jesus didn't say to him that he wouldn't die, but, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?"
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.
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
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.
- #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 →
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
- with mention of the place out of which one goes, or the point from which he departs
- metaph.
Word origin
Derived from εκ (ek) (G1537) — from.
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.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1831, 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 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
- Genesis 4:16 ἐκἔρχομαι
- Exodus 1:10 ἐκἔρχομαι
- Leviticus 8:33 ἐκἔρχομαι
- Numbers 1:1 ἐκἔρχομαι
- Deuteronomy 1:44 ἐκἔρχομαι
- Joshua 2:5 ἐκἔρχομαι
- Judges 1:10 ἐκἔρχομαι
- Ruth 1:7 ἐκἔρχομαι
- 1 Samuel 1:23 ἐκἔρχομαι
- 2 Samuel 2:12 ἐκἔρχομαι
- 1 Kings 2:30 ἐκἔρχομαι
- 2 Kings 2:21 ἐκἔρχομαι
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.
- Genesis 4:16 ἐκἔρχομαι Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
- Genesis 8:7 ἐκἔρχομαι and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
- Genesis 8:16 ἐκἔρχομαι "Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.
- Genesis 8:18 ἐκἔρχομαι Noah went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.
- Genesis 8:19 ἐκἔρχομαι Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went forth out of the ark.
- Genesis 9:10 ἐκἔρχομαι and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the cattle, and every animal of the earth with you. Of all that go out of the ark, even every animal of the earth.
- Genesis 9:18 ἐκἔρχομαι The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.
- Genesis 9:22 ἐκἔρχομαι Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.
- Genesis 10:11 ἐκἔρχομαι Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
- Genesis 10:14 ἐκἔρχομαι Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
- Genesis 12:1 ἐκἔρχομαι Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.
- Genesis 12:4 ἐκἔρχομαι So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.
- Genesis 12:5 ἐκἔρχομαι Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls who they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.
- Genesis 14:8 ἐκἔρχομαι There went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar); and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim;
- Genesis 14:17 ἐκἔρχομαι The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (the same is the King's Valley).
- Genesis 15:4 ἐκἔρχομαι Behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir."
- Genesis 15:14 ἐκἔρχομαι I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great substance.
- Genesis 17:6 ἐκἔρχομαι I will make you exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.
- Genesis 19:6 ἐκἔρχομαι Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.
- Genesis 19:14 ἐκἔρχομαι Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
- Genesis 19:15 ἐκἔρχομαι When the morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
- Genesis 19:23 ἐκἔρχομαι The sun was risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
- Genesis 24:5 ἐκἔρχομαι 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 24:43 ἐκἔρχομαι Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, Give me, I pray you, a little water from your pitcher to drink.
- Genesis 24:50 ἐκἔρχομαι Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can't speak to you bad or good.
- Genesis 24:63 ἐκἔρχομαι Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.
- Genesis 25:25 ἐκἔρχομαι The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.
- Genesis 25:26 ἐκἔρχομαι After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
- Genesis 27:3 ἐκἔρχομαι Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and take me venison.
- Genesis 27:30 ἐκἔρχομαι It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
- Genesis 28:10 ἐκἔρχομαι Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
- Genesis 30:16 ἐκἔρχομαι Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." He lay with her that night.
- Genesis 31:13 ἐκἔρχομαι I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth."
- Genesis 31:33 ἐκἔρχομαι Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
- Genesis 34:1 ἐκἔρχομαι Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
- Genesis 34:6 ἐκἔρχομαι Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.
- Genesis 34:26 ἐκἔρχομαι They killed Hamor and Shechem, his son, with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away.
- Genesis 35:11 ἐκἔρχομαι God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your loins.
- Genesis 38:28 ἐκἔρχομαι 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."
- Genesis 38:29 ἐκἔρχομαι It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez.
- Genesis 38:30 ἐκἔρχομαι Afterward his brother came out, that had the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.
- Genesis 39:12 ἐκἔρχομαι She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
- Genesis 39:13 ἐκἔρχομαι It happened, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,
- Genesis 39:15 ἐκἔρχομαι It happened, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."
- Genesis 39:18 ἐκἔρχομαι and it happened, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and ran outside."
- Genesis 41:46 ἐκἔρχομαι Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 42:15 ἐκἔρχομαι Hereby you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh you shall not go forth from here, unless your youngest brother come here.
- Genesis 43:31 ἐκἔρχομαι He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, "Serve the meal."
- Genesis 44:4 ἐκἔρχομαι When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?
- Genesis 44:28 ἐκἔρχομαι and the one went out from me, and I said, "Surely he is torn in pieces;" and I haven't seen him since.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1831) 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.
