exō · outside

What it means

exō (ἔξω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “outside”.

Out.

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. Points to the space on the other side of a door, a wall or a group.
2. "Those outside": people who are not believers.

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

Word study

Outside, out: an adverb of place, often with verbs of motion (throw out, go out) or as a preposition, outside of. With the article, “those outside”, those who do not belong to the community.

• Throwing out John 6:37Matthew 5:13Luke 4:29
• Going outside Matthew 26:75John 19:4
• Outside the city or the gate Hebrews 13:12Acts 7:58
• “Those outside” 1 Corinthians 5:121 Thessalonians 4:12
• “Our outer person” 2 Corinthians 4:16

Historical and cultural background

Hebrews 13:11-12 compares the death of Jesus “outside the gate” with the bodies of the sacrificial animals, which were burned “outside the camp”.

How we translate it

“Outside” 34 times and “out” 22. In 2 Corinthians 4:16 the adjective is translated “outer” (“our outer person”), over against the “inner”.

How it is translated

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

• outside ×34
• out ×22
• of ×3
• away ×1
• foreign ×1
• outer ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×9
• Mark×10
• Luke×9
• John×13
• Acts×10
• 1 Corinthians×2
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Colossians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• Hebrews×3
• 1 John×1
• Revelation×2

• Matthew 5:13

  “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt becomes tasteless, with what will it be salted? It is good for nothing any longer except to be thrown out and trampled by people.

• Matthew 10:14

  And whoever does not receive you or listen to your words, as you go out of that house or town, shake off the dust from your feet.

• Matthew 12:46

  While he was still speaking to the crowds, look, his mother and brothers were standing outside, seeking to speak to him.

• Matthew 12:47

  And someone said to him, “Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak to you.”

• Matthew 13:48

  when it was full, they hauled it up onto the shore and sat down and gathered the good ones into containers, but threw the bad ones away.

• Matthew 21:17

  And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.

• Matthew 21:39

  And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

• Matthew 26:69

  Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a servant girl came up to him, saying, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”

• Matthew 26:75

  And Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.

• Mark 1:45

  But he went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread the word, so that he could no longer enter a town openly, but was out in deserted places; and they kept coming to him from everywhere.

• Mark 3:31

  And his mother and his brothers come, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.

• Mark 3:32

  And a crowd was sitting around him, and they say to him, “Look, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.”

• Mark 4:11

  And he was saying to them, “To you the mystery of the kingdom of God has been given; but for those outside, everything comes in parables,

• Mark 5:10

  And he was begging him earnestly not to send them out of the region.

• Mark 8:23

  And taking the blind man by the hand, he brought him out of the village; and spitting on his eyes, he laid his hands on him and asked him, “Do you see anything?”

• Mark 11:4

  And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untie it.

• Mark 11:19

  And when evening came, they went out of the city.

• Mark 12:8

  And they took him, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.

• Mark 14:68

  But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you are saying.” And he went outside into the forecourt; and a rooster crowed.

• Luke 1:10

  And the whole multitude of the people was praying outside at the hour of incense.

• Luke 4:29

  and rising up, they drove him out of the town, and they led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, so as to throw him down the cliff.

• Luke 8:20

  And it was reported to him, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.”

• Luke 13:25

  Once the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from.’

• Luke 13:28

  There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you being thrown out.

• Luke 13:33

  Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem.

• Luke 14:35

  It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; they throw it out. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear.”

• Luke 20:15

  And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What, then, will the master of the vineyard do to them?

• Luke 22:62

  And he went outside and wept bitterly.

• John 6:37

  Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out,

• John 9:34

  They answered and said to him, “You were born entirely in sins, and you are teaching us?” And they threw him out.

• John 9:35

  Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

• John 11:43

  And having said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

• John 12:31

  Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.

• John 15:6

  If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like the branch and withers; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

• John 18:16

  but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.

• John 18:29

  So Pilate went outside to them and says, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”

• John 19:4

  And Pilate went outside again and says to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no ground for a charge in him.”

• John 19:5

  So Jesus came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And he says to them, “Look, the man!”

• John 19:13

  So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called the Stone Pavement, and in Hebrew Gabbatha.

• John 20:11

  But Mary was standing outside at the tomb, weeping. So as she wept, she stooped to look into the tomb;

And 22 more times.