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Strong's G1855 ἔξωθεν (exothen)

exothen - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1855 — deqaq (“break to pieces”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1855
Language Greek
Linked Usages 57
Books 23

Strong's G1855 Quick Answer

Strong's G1855 ἔξωθεν (exothen) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. exothen (ex'-o-then) adv. 1. external(-ly) [from G1854] It has 57 linked Bible usages across 23 books. Visible English usage signals include without, out, and side. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
exothen (ex'-o-then) adv. 1. external(-ly) [from G1854]
Usage
57 linked usages
Books
23 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
without, out, and side

Meaning and Definition

exothen (ex'-o-then) adv. 1. external(-ly) [from G1854] KJV: out(-side, -ward, - wardly), (from) without Root(s): G1854

Original Word
ἔξωθεν
Transliteration
exothen
Derivation
Root: ἔξω R1: 1854
Morphology
adverb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1855. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

outside

Usage: ἔξωθεν adv. (ἔξω opposite to ἔσωθεν), [in LXX for חוּץ ;] __1. prop. (in answer to the question, Whence ?), from without: Mrk.7:18 __2. More often (= ἔξω; cf. Bl., § 25, 3), without: Mat.23:27-28 Mrk.7:18, 2Co.7:5; τὸ ἔ., Mat.23:25, Luk.11:39-40; οἱ ἔ., 1Ti.3:7, Mrk.4:11 (WH, mg.); ὁ ἔ. κόσμος, 1Pe.3:3; ἐκβάλλειν ἔ., Rev.11:2. As prep. with genitive: Mrk.7:15, Rev.11:1-19 4Ki.14:20 (cf. Robertson, Gr., 548).† (AS)

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How Strong's G1855 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render exothen, 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.

without Mark 7:18 out Mark 7:15 side 2 Corinthians 7:5

How Strong's G1855 Usage Compares

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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 40 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1855 (ἔξωθεν) appears 45 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1855 by Corpus

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.

Strong's G1855 in the New Testament

11 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 23:25 KJV

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

Matthew 23:27 KJV

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Matthew 23:28 KJV

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Strong's G1855 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

40 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 6:14 Septuagint / Brenton

Make therefore for thyself an ark of square timber; thou shalt make the ark in compartments, and thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.

Genesis 7:16 Septuagint / Brenton

And they that entered went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded Noah, and the Lord God shut the ark outside of him.

Genesis 20:18 Septuagint / Brenton

Because the Lord had fast closed from without every womb in the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.

Strong's G1855 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 13:1 Septuagint / Brenton

Now when the evening was come, his servants made haste to depart, and Bagoas shut his tent without, and dismissed the waiters from the presence of his lord; and they went to their beds: for they were all weary, because the feast had been long.

4 Maccabees 6:34 Septuagint / Brenton

And it is but fair that we should allow, that the power belongs to reasoning, since it masters external miseries.

4 Maccabees 18:2 Septuagint / Brenton

Knowing that religious reasoning is lord of the passions, and those not only inward but outward.

Usage Excerpts

First 57 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1855.

Genesis 6:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Make therefore for thyself an ark of square timber; thou shalt make the ark in compartments, and thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Genesis 7:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they that entered went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded Noah, and the Lord God shut the ark outside of him.
Genesis 20:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because the Lord had fast closed from without every womb in the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
Exodus 25:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt gild it with pure gold, thou shalt gild it within and without; and thou shalt make for it golden wreaths twisted round about.
Exodus 26:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt set the table outside the veil, and the candlestick opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle; and thou shalt put the table on the north side of the tabernacle.
Exodus 27:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
in the tabernacle of the testimony, without the veil that is before the ark of the covenant, shall Aaron and his sons burn it from evening until morning, before the Lord: it is a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations of the children of Israel.
Exodus 38:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and overlaid it with pure gold within and without;
Exodus 40:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he put the table in the tabernacle of witness, on the north side without the veil of the tabernacle.
Leviticus 24:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
outside the veil in the tabernacle of witness; and Aaron and his sons shall burn it from evening until morning before the Lord continually, a perpetual statute throughout your generations.
Deuteronomy 32:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Without, the sword shall bereave them of children, And terror shall issue out of the secret chambers; The young man shall perish with the virgin, The suckling with him who has grown old.
Judges 9:51 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there was a strong tower in the midst of the city; and thither all the men and the women of the city fled, and shut the door without them, and went up on the roof of the tower.
Judges 12:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent forth; and he brought in thirty daughters for his sons from without; and he judged Israel seven years.
3 Kingdoms 6:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
was five cubits broad, and the middle part six, and the third was seven cubits broad; for he formed an interval to the house round about without the house, that they might not touch the walls of the house.
3 Kingdoms 7:46 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All these were of costly stones, sculptured at intervals within even from the foundation even to the top, and outward to the great court,
4 Kingdoms 4:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to her, Go, borrow for thyself vessels without of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
4 Kingdoms 23:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he carried out the grove from the house of the Lord to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and reduced it to powder, and cast its powder on the sepulchers of the sons of the people.
Psalms 151:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This Psalm is a genuine one of David, though supernumerary, composed when he fought in single combat with Goliath. I was small among my brethren, And youngest in my father’s house: I tended my father’s sheep.
Jeremiah 6:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I allowed my wrath to come to the full, yet I kept it in, and did not utterly destroy them: I will pour it out on the children without, and on the assembly of young men together: for man and woman shall be taken together, the old man with him that is full of days.
Jeremiah 9:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants without, and the young men from the streets.
Jeremiah 10:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
vessels.
Jeremiah 11:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to me, Read these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.
Jeremiah 21:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war wherewith ye fight against the Chaldeans that have besieged you from outside the wall, and I will gather them into the midst of this city.
Jeremiah 28:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And slain men shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and men pierced through shall fall without it.
Jeremiah 40:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord; There shall yet be heard in this place, of which ye say, It is destitute of men and cattle, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, the places that have been made desolate for want of men and cattle,
Jeremiah 44:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then the king commanded, and they cast him into the prison, and gave him a loaf a day out of the place where they bake, until the bread failed out of the city. So Jeremiah continued in the court of the prison.
Jeremiah 51:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So mine anger and my wrath dropped upon them, and was kindled in the gates of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they became a desolation and a waste, as at this day.
Jeremiah 51:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Have ye forgotten the sins of your fathers, and the sins of the kings of Judah, and the sins of your princes, and the sins of your wives, which they wrought in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Jeremiah 51:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For we will surely perform every word that shall proceed out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, and our kings and princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and so we were filled with bread, and were well, and saw no evils.
Jeremiah 51:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Did not the Lord remember the incense which ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, and your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land? and came it not into his heart?
Lamentations 1:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, O Lord; for I am afflicted: My belly is troubled, And my heart is turned within me; For I have been grievously rebellious: Abroad the sword has bereaved me, Even as death at home.
Ezekiel 7:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There shall be war with the sword without, and famine and pestilence within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword; and famine and pestilence shall destroy them that are in the city.
Ezekiel 40:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And behold a wall round about the house without, and in the man’s hand a reed, the measure of it was six cubits by the cubit, and a span: and he measured across the front wall; the breadth was equal to the reed, and the length of it equal to the reed.
Ezekiel 40:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the open space of the gate without to the open space of the porch of the gate within was fifty cubits.
Ezekiel 41:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the breadth of the wall of each side without was five cubits; and the spaces that were left between the sides of the house,
Ezekiel 41:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And almost all the way to the inner, and close to the outer side, and upon all the wall round about within and without,
Ezekiel 41:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there was carved work upon them, and cherubs on the doors of the temple, and palm trees according to the carving of the sanctuary; and there were stout planks in front of the porch without.
Ezekiel 42:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there was light without, corresponding to the chambers of the outer court looking toward the front of the northern chambers; the length of them was fifty cubits.
Ezekiel 43:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall take the calf of the sin offering, and it shall be consumed by fire in the separate place of the house, outside the sanctuary.
Ezekiel 46:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the inner gate, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his whole burnt offerings and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the entrance of the gate: then shall he come forth; but the gate shall not be shut till evening.
Ezekiel 47:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he brought me out by the way of the northern gate, and he led me round by the way outside to the gate of the court that looks eastward; and, behold, water came down from the right side,
Matthew 23:25 New Testament, KJV
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Matthew 23:27 New Testament, KJV
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Matthew 23:28 New Testament, KJV
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Mark 7:15 New Testament, KJV
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
Mark 7:18 New Testament, KJV
And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
Luke 11:39 New Testament, KJV
And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
Luke 11:40 New Testament, KJV
Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
2 Corinthians 7:5 New Testament, KJV
For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
1 Timothy 3:7 New Testament, KJV
Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
1 Peter 3:3 New Testament, KJV
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
Revelation 11:2 New Testament, KJV
But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Judith 13:1 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now when the evening was come, his servants made haste to depart, and Bagoas shut his tent without, and dismissed the waiters from the presence of his lord; and they went to their beds: for they were all weary, because the feast had been long.
4 Maccabees 6:34 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And it is but fair that we should allow, that the power belongs to reasoning, since it masters external miseries.
4 Maccabees 18:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Knowing that religious reasoning is lord of the passions, and those not only inward but outward.
Baruch 2:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
I will cause to cease out of the cities of Judah, and from without Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall be desolate of inhabitants.
Daniel 1:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: to Daniel, Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, Shadrach; and to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
Book 152 1:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1855, grouped by book.

Genesis 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 12 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 3 usages, New Testament
Mark 2 usages, New Testament
Luke 2 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
1 Peter 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Daniel 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Book 152 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G1855 FAQ

What does exothen (ἔξωθεν) mean?

Strong's G1855 is a Greek entry for G1855 ἔξωθεν (exothen). exothen (ex'-o-then) adv. 1. external(-ly) [from G1854]

How many times is exothen (ἔξωθεν) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 57 linked usages for Strong's G1855 across 23 books.

Where can I study exothen (ἔξωθεν) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1855 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate exothen (ἔξωθεν)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as without, out, and side. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G1855 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 40 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1855, with linked reader references where each row is available.