exōtheō · drive out, run ashore

What it means

exōtheō (ἐξωθέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “drive out, run ashore”.

Push out, drive out; of a ship, drive it onto the shore.

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. To thrust someone out of their place by force.
2. To drive a ship onto the beach and ground it.

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

How it is translated

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

• drove out ×1
• run ×1

Where it appears

• Acts 7:45

  This tent our fathers, having received it in turn, also brought in with Joshua into the possession of the nations whom God drove out before our fathers, until the days of David,

• Acts 27:39

  And when day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay having a beach, onto which they were planning, if they could, to run the ship ashore.