Exakoloutheo means “follow” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1811 — dalaph (“drip”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1811 ἐξακολουθέω (exakoloutheo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. exakoloutheo (ex-ak-ol-ou-theh'-o) v. 1. to follow out 2. (figuratively) to imitate, obey, yield to It has 9 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include followed, follow, and following. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
exakoloutheo (ex-ak-ol-ou-theh'-o) v. 1. to follow out 2. (figuratively) to imitate, obey, yield to [from G1537 and G190] KJV: follow Root(s): G1537, G190
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1811. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to follow
Usage: ἐξ-ακολουθέω, -ῶ [in LXX Amo.2:4, Jer.2:2 (אַחַר הָלַךְ), Isa.56:11 (פָּנָה), Job.31:9 (פָּתָה ni.), Sir.5:2, Dan LXX TH Dan.3:1-30 :(41) * ;] to follow, follow up (in various senses): metaphorically, 2Pe.1:16 2:2 2:15 † (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render exakoloutheo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1811 (ἐξακολουθέω) appears 6 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
3 indexed usages in New Testament.
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
5 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
If my heart has gone forth after another man’s wife, And if I laid wait at her doors;
Yea, they are insatiable dogs, that know not what it is to be filled, and they are wicked, having no understanding: all have followed their own ways, each according to his own will.
And he said, Thus saith the Lord, I remember the kindness of thy youth, and the love of thine espousals, in following the Holy One of Israel, saith the Lord.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Follow not thine own mind and thy strength, To walk in the ways of thy heart:
First 9 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1811.
If my heart has gone forth after another man’s wife, And if I laid wait at her doors;
Yea, they are insatiable dogs, that know not what it is to be filled, and they are wicked, having no understanding: all have followed their own ways, each according to his own will.
And he said, Thus saith the Lord, I remember the kindness of thy youth, and the love of thine espousals, in following the Holy One of Israel, saith the Lord.
And now we follow thee with all our heart, We fear thee, and seek thy face. Put us not to shame:
Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of the children of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away from him; because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his ordinances, and their vain idols which they made, which their fathers followed, caused them to err.
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
Follow not thine own mind and thy strength, To walk in the ways of thy heart:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1811, grouped by book.
Exakoloutheo (Strong's G1811) is a Greek word most simply glossed "follow". exakoloutheo (ex-ak-ol-ou-theh'-o) v. 1. to follow out 2. (figuratively) to imitate, obey, yield to
This page currently indexes 9 linked usages for Strong's G1811 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1811 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as followed, follow, and following. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 5 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1811, with linked reader references where each row is available.