ekeithen · from there

What it means

ekeithen (ἐκεῖθεν) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “from there”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Shows that someone leaves or sets out from the place just named.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• there ×26
• either side ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×12
• Mark×5
• Luke×3
• John×2
• Acts×4
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 4:21

  And going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.

• Matthew 5:26

  Truly I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny.

• Matthew 9:9

  And passing on from there, Jesus saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth; and he says to him, “Follow me.” And he got up and followed him.

• Matthew 9:27

  And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying out and saying, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!”

• Matthew 11:1

  And it happened when Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, that he moved on from there to teach and proclaim in their towns.

• Matthew 12:9

  And moving on from there, he went into their synagogue.

• Matthew 12:15

  But Jesus, knowing this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all,

• Matthew 13:53

  And it happened when Jesus had finished these parables that he went away from there.

• Matthew 14:13

  Hearing this, Jesus withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place by himself; and when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns.

• Matthew 15:21

  And going out from there, Jesus withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.

• Matthew 15:29

  And moving on from there, Jesus came beside the Sea of Galilee; and going up onto the mountain, he was sitting there.

• Matthew 19:15

  And after laying his hands on them, he went from there.

• Mark 6:1

  And he went out from there and comes to his hometown, and his disciples follow him.

• Mark 6:10

  And he was saying to them, “Wherever you enter into a house, stay there until you leave from there.

• Mark 6:11

  And whatever place does not receive you nor listen to you, as you leave from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet as a testimony to them.”

• Mark 7:24

  And getting up from there, he went away into the region of Tyre. And he entered into a house and wanted no one to know it, and he could not escape notice.

• Mark 10:1

  And getting up from there, he goes into the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; and crowds gather around him again, and as was his custom, he was again teaching them.

• Luke 9:4

  And whatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart.

• Luke 12:59

  I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid even the last lepton.”

• Luke 16:26

  And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot, nor may anyone cross from there to us.’

• John 4:43

  After the two days he went out from there into Galilee.

• John 11:54

  So Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.

• Acts 13:4

  So they, sent out by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.

• Acts 18:7

  And moving on from there, he went into the house of a certain man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

• Acts 20:13

  But we went ahead to the ship and set sail for Assos, intending to take aboard Paul there; for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land.

• Acts 27:12

  And because the harbor was unsuitable for wintering, the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.

• Revelation 22:2

  in the middle of its street. And on either side of the river was the tree of life, producing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.