exōthen · outside

What it means

exōthen (ἔξωθεν) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “outside”.

From outside, on the outside.

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. The outward side, what is seen at a glance.

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

How it is translated

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

• outside ×11
• out ×1
• outward kind ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×2
• Luke×2
• 2 Corinthians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• 1 Peter×1
• Revelation×3

• Matthew 23:25

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

• Matthew 23:27

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of all uncleanness.

• Matthew 23:28

  So you also on the outside appear righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

• Mark 7:15

  There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him; but the things that come out of a person are what defile the person.”

• Mark 7:18

  And he says to them, “Are you so lacking in understanding too? Do you not see that whatever goes from outside into a person cannot defile him,

• Luke 11:39

  But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inside is full of greed and wickedness.

• Luke 11:40

  Fools! Did not the one who made the outside also make the inside?

• 2 Corinthians 7:5

  For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way: outside fights, inside fears.

• 1 Timothy 3:7

  He must also have a good testimony from those outside, so that he may not fall into disgrace and the snare of the devil.

• 1 Peter 3:3

  Let your adornment not be the outward kind: the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry or the wearing of clothes,

• Revelation 11:2

  And the court outside the sanctuary, leave it out, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.

• Revelation 14:20

  And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up to the bridles of the horses, for one thousand six hundred stadia.

And 1 more times.