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.
5 verses where G1831 appears in the Perfect tense in the Book of Luke. 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.
Luke
- Luke 7:24 ἐξεληλύθατε perf act ind 2pl When John's messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
- Luke 7:25 ἐξεληλύθατε perf act ind 2pl But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.
- Luke 7:26 ἐξεληλύθατε perf act ind 2pl But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.
- Luke 8:46 ἐξεληλυθυῖαν perf act ptcp acc sg fem But Jesus said, "Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me."
- Luke 22:52 ἐξεληλύθατε perf act ind 2pl Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?
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.
