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εξωθεω

to drive out

G1856 Strong's Greek
exōthéō Transliteration
/ex-o-theh'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 2 appearances

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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.

The Greek verb εξωθεω centers on the idea of “to drive out.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. Acts dominates its distribution — 2 of 2 verses. Its earliest occurrence is Acts 7:45. Related forms include εκ, εκβαλλω and εκβασις. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
drive out
Modern gloss
to drive out
Strong's 1890 agrees
Strong's 1890 and current Thayer scholarship align on this entry's primary sense — a good signal that the gloss above is unambiguous and stable. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G1856 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 →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
Acts 7:45
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Acts 7:45.
Acts 27:39
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Acts 27:39.
#2,678
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

  • Acts 2 verses 100%

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 2 · 100%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 2 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 100%

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: Drave out 1×, Thrust in 1×
  • American Standard Version: Drive 1×, Thrust out 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Drove out 1×, Run 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Drive 1×, Drove out 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1856 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Drave out” 1×
  • “Thrust in” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1856 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Drive” 1×
  • “Thrust out” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1856 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Drove out” 1×
  • “Run” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1856 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Drive” 1×
  • “Drove out” 1×

Word origin

Derived from εκ (ek) (G1537) — from.

Part of speech: Verb

From G1537 and ὠθέω ō theō (to push ); to expel ; by implication to propel : - drive out thrust in.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms G1856 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἐξῶσαι exō̂sai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Acts 27:39 1
ἐξῶσεν exō̂sen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Acts 7:45 1

Same root — word family


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word εξωθεω appears 26 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 25 verses in 10 books.

26
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
25
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
10 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 10 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1856) 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.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1856) 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.

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