ἔξωθεν
outside
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
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G1855 appears in the Book of Matthew — 3 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.
Matthew
- Matthew 23:25 ἔξωθεν adv "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.
- Matthew 23:27 ἔξωθεν adv "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
- Matthew 23:28 ἔξωθεν adv Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
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.
εξωθεν (éxōthen) is a Greek verb most often rendered “outside.” It first appears in Matthew 23:25. The Greek New Testament uses it across 12 verses — uncommon. Matthew dominates its distribution — 3 of 12 verses. Sharing its root, it stands alongside εξω and εξωτερος. For the data behind this summary, explore 12-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1855 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 →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #863
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 863 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 12 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 12 distinct verses.
- Gospels 7 verses · 58%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 17%
- Johannine 2 verses · 17%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 17%
- Revelation 2 verses · 17%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 8%
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: Without 3×, Is without 2×, Outside 2×
- American Standard Version: Outside 3×, Without 3×, Outwardly 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Outside 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Outside 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1855 across 11 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 G1855 across 10 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1855 across 12 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1855 across 12 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.
Word origin
Derived from εξω (éxō) (G1854) — outside.
From G1854 ; external (-ly): - out (-side -ward -wardly) (from) without.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1855, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εξωθεν appears 40 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 40 verses in 11 books.
- 40
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 40
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 6:14 ἔξωθεν
- Exodus 25:11 ἔξωθεν
- Leviticus 24:3 ἔξωθεν
- Deuteronomy 32:25 ἔξωθεν
- Judges 9:51 ἔξωθεν
- 1 Kings 6:6 ἔξωθεν
- 2 Kings 4:3 ἔξωθεν
- Psalms 151:1 ἔξωθεν
- Jeremiah 6:11 ἔξωθεν
- Lamentations 1:20 ἔξωθεν
- Ezekiel 7:15 ἔξωθεν
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1855) 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.
- Genesis 6:14 ἔξωθεν Make an ark of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ark, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
- Genesis 7:16 ἔξωθεν Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Yahweh shut him in.
- Genesis 20:18 ἔξωθεν For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
- Exodus 25:11 ἔξωθεν You shall overlay it with pure gold. Inside and outside shall you overlay it, and shall make a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 26:35 ἔξωθεν You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand over against the table on the side of the tent toward the south: and you shall put the table on the north side.
- Exodus 27:21 ἔξωθεν In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
- Exodus 38:2 ἔξωθεν He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.
- Exodus 40:22 ἔξωθεν He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the side of the tent northward, outside of the veil.
- Leviticus 24:3 ἔξωθεν Outside of the veil of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh continually: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
- Deuteronomy 32:25 ἔξωθεν Outside shall the sword bereave, In the chambers terror; [It shall destroy] both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
- Judges 9:51 ἔξωθεν But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and got them up to the roof of the tower.
- Judges 12:9 ἔξωθεν He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.
- 1 Kings 6:6 ἔξωθεν The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house round about, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.
- 1 Kings 7:46 ἔξωθεν In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
- 2 Kings 4:3 ἔξωθεν Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
- 2 Kings 23:6 ἔξωθεν 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.
- Psalms 151:1 ἔξωθεν
- Jeremiah 6:11 ἔξωθεν Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with holding in: pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.
- Jeremiah 9:20 ἔξωθεν Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation.
- Jeremiah 10:17 ἔξωθεν Gather up your wares out of the land, you who abide in the siege.
- Jeremiah 11:6 ἔξωθεν Yahweh said to me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear you the words of this covenant, and do them.
- Jeremiah 21:4 ἔξωθεν Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them into the midst of this city.
- Jeremiah 28:4 ἔξωθεν and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon, says Yahweh; for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 40:10 ἔξωθεν As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who shall come to us: but you, gather you wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.
- Jeremiah 44:21 ἔξωθεν The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn't Yahweh remember them, and didn't it come into his mind?
- Jeremiah 51:6 ἔξωθεν Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.
- Jeremiah 51:9 ἔξωθεν We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go everyone into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
- Jeremiah 51:17 ἔξωθεν Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- Jeremiah 51:21 ἔξωθεν and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;
- Lamentations 1:20 ἔξωθεν See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.
- Ezekiel 7:15 ἔξωθεν The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within: he who is in the field shall die with the sword: and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
- Ezekiel 40:5 ἔξωθεν Behold, a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
- Ezekiel 40:15 ἔξωθεν [From] the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:9 ἔξωθεν The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that belonged to the house.
- Ezekiel 41:17 ἔξωθεν to [the space] above the door, even to the inner house, and outside, and by all the wall round about inside and outside, by measure.
- Ezekiel 41:25 ἔξωθεν There were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm trees, like as were made on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the face of the porch outside.
- Ezekiel 42:7 ἔξωθεν The wall that was outside by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court before the chambers, the length of it was fifty cubits.
- Ezekiel 43:21 ἔξωθεν You shall also take the bull of the sin-offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary.
- Ezekiel 46:2 ἔξωθεν The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
- Ezekiel 47:2 ἔξωθεν Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me round by the way outside to the outer gate, by the way of [the gate] that looks toward the east; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1855) 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.
