Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
outer
Usage: ἐξώτερος, -α, -ον (compar., from ἔξω; opposite to ἐσώτερος) [in LXX chiefly for חִיצוֹן ;] outer: σκότος, Mat.8:12 Mat.22:13 Mat.25:30.† (AS)
Exoteros means “outer” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1857 — deqer (“Dekar”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1857 ἐξώτερος (exoteros) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. exoteros (ex-o'-ter-os) adj. 1. exterior [comparative of G1854] It has 25 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include outer. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
exoteros (ex-o'-ter-os) adj. 1. exterior [comparative of G1854] KJV: outer Root(s): G1854
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outer
Usage: ἐξώτερος, -α, -ον (compar., from ἔξω; opposite to ἐσώτερος) [in LXX chiefly for חִיצוֹן ;] outer: σκότος, Mat.8:12 Mat.22:13 Mat.25:30.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render exoteros, 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 and New Testament. 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 G1857 (ἐξώτερος) appears 22 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.
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
22 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And thou shalt make for them loops of blue on the edge of one curtain, on one side for the coupling, and so shalt thou make on the edge of the outer curtain for the second coupling.
he sculptured palm trees within and without the house.
And the floors of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
First 25 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1857.
And thou shalt make for them loops of blue on the edge of one curtain, on one side for the coupling, and so shalt thou make on the edge of the outer curtain for the second coupling.
he sculptured palm trees within and without the house.
And the floors of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
Let his memorial perish out of the earth, And his name shall be publicly cast out.
And the sound of the cherubs’ wings was heard as far as the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God speaking.
And he measured the breadth of the court, from the open space of the outer gate inward to the open space of the gate looking outward: a hundred cubits was the distance to the place of the gate looking eastward: and he brought me to the north;
and behold a gate looking northward belonging to the outer court, and he measured it, both the length of it and the breadth;
from the porch to the outer court: and there were palm trees to the post thereof, and eight steps.
And its porches were toward the inner court; and there were palm trees to the posts on this side and on that side: and it had eight steps.
And he measured the length of the partition in front of the space left by the back parts of that house; and the spaces left on this side and on that side were in length a hundred cubits: and the temple and the corners and the outer porch were ceiled.
And almost all the way to the inner, and close to the outer side, and upon all the wall round about within and without,
And he brought me into the inner court eastward, opposite the northern gate: and he brought me in, and behold five chambers near the vacant space, and near the northern partition,
ornamented accordingly as the gates of the inner court, and arranged accordingly as the peristyles of the outer court, with triple porticoes fronting one another.
For they were triple, and they had not pillars like the pillars of the outer ones: therefore they projected from the lower ones and the middle ones from the ground.
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.
For the length of the chambers looking toward the inner court was fifty cubits, and these are the ones that front the others; the whole was a hundred cubits.
And there were doors of these chambers for an outlet toward the east, so that one should go through them out of the outer court,
None shall go in thither except the priests, and they shall not go forth of the holy place into the outer court, that they that draw nigh to me may be continually holy, and may not touch their garments in which they minister, with defilement, for they are holy; and they shall put on other garments whenever they come in contact with the people.
Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary that looks eastward; and it was shut.
And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their robes, in which they minister; and they shall lay them up in the chambers of the sanctuary, and shall put on other robes, and they shall not sanctify the people with their robes.
And he said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offerings and the sin offerings, and there shall they bake the meat offering always; so as not to carry them out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.
And he brought me into the outer court, and led me round upon the four sides of the court; and, behold, there was a court on each of the sides of the court,
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1857, grouped by book.
Exoteros (Strong's G1857) is a Greek word most simply glossed "outer". exoteros (ex-o'-ter-os) adj. 1. exterior [comparative of G1854]
This page currently indexes 25 linked usages for Strong's G1857 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1857 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as outer. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 22 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G1857, with linked reader references where each row is available.