ekballō · throw out, drive out

What it means

ekballō (ἐκβάλλω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “throw out, drive out”.

Throw out, put out, drive 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. To expel someone, like demons.
2. To remove something.
3. To send out, make go out.

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

Word study

To throw out, drive out, take out; also to send out with urgency. It is a compound of ἐκ, “out”, and βάλλω, “throw” (G906).

• Driving out demons Matthew 8:16Matthew 12:28
• Driving those who sold out of the temple Matthew 21:12
• Taking something out: the beam from the eye, things from the treasure Matthew 7:5Matthew 12:35
• The Spirit “drives him out into the wilderness”; that he “send out workers” Mark 1:12Matthew 9:38
• “Whoever comes to me I will never cast out” John 6:37Matthew 22:13

How we translate it

“Drive out” 12 times, “cast out” 8, “take” 6, “drives out” 4, “drove” 4, “brings out” 3. “Take” or “bring out” when something is drawn out (Matthew 7:5; 12:35); “send out” when it is sending workers (Matthew 9:38); in Mark 1:12, “drives him out”, keeping the force of the verb.

How it is translated

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

• drive out ×12
• cast out ×8
• take ×6
• drives out ×4
• drove ×4
• brings out ×3
• cast ×3
• drive ×3
• driving out ×3
• put ×3
• others ×32

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×28
• Mark×18
• Luke×20
• John×6
• Acts×5
• Galatians×1
• James×1
• 3 John×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 7:4

  Or how will you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and look, the beam is in your own eye?

• Matthew 7:5

  Hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

• Matthew 7:22

  Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many miracles?’

• Matthew 8:12

  but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

• Matthew 8:16

  When evening came, they brought to him many who were possessed by demons; and he drove out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were ill,

• Matthew 8:31

  And the demons were begging him, saying, “If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

• Matthew 9:25

  But when the crowd had been put out, he went in and took hold of her hand, and the girl got up.

• Matthew 9:33

  And when the demon had been driven out, the mute man spoke; and the crowds were amazed, saying, “Never has anything been seen like this in Israel!”

• Matthew 9:34

  But the Pharisees were saying, “By the ruler of the demons he drives out the demons.”

• Matthew 9:38

  so ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.”

• Matthew 10:1

  And calling to himself his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, so as to drive them out and to heal every disease and every sickness.

• Matthew 10:8

  Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Freely you received; freely give.

• Matthew 12:20

  A crushed reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not put out, until he brings justice to victory;

• Matthew 12:24

  But the Pharisees, hearing it, said, “This man does not drive out the demons except by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.”

• Matthew 12:26

  And if Satan drives out Satan, he has been divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?

• Matthew 12:27

  And if I drive out the demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons drive them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

• Matthew 12:28

  But if by the Spirit of God I drive out the demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

• Matthew 12:35

  The good person brings out good things from his good treasure, and the evil person brings out evil things from his evil treasure.

• Matthew 13:52

  And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple for the kingdom of heaven is like a man, a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure new things and old.”

• Matthew 15:17

  Do you not see that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled into the latrine?

• Matthew 17:19

  Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”

• Matthew 21:12

  And Jesus entered into the temple and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.

• Matthew 21:39

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

• Matthew 22:13

  Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind his feet and hands and throw him into the outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

• Matthew 25:30

  And throw the worthless slave into the outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

• Mark 1:12

  And at once the Spirit drives him out into the wilderness.

• Mark 1:34

  And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and he drove out many demons, and he would not let the demons speak, because they knew him.

• Mark 1:39

  And he went proclaiming in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and driving out the demons.

• Mark 1:43

  And sternly warning him, he sent him away at once,

• Mark 3:15

  and to have authority to drive out the demons.

• Mark 3:22

  And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the ruler of the demons he drives out the demons.”

• Mark 3:23

  And having summoned them, he was saying to them in parables, “How can Satan drive out Satan?

• Mark 5:40

  And they were laughing at him. But he, having put them all out, takes along the child’s father and mother and those with him, and goes in where the child was.

• Mark 6:13

  And they were driving out many demons, and anointing with oil many who were sick, and healing them.

• Mark 7:26

  Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth; and she was asking him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

• Mark 9:18

  and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid; and I told your disciples to drive it out, and they were not strong enough.”

• Mark 9:28

  And when he had gone into the house, his disciples were asking him privately, “Why could we not drive it out?”

• Mark 9:38

  John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.”

• Mark 9:47

  And if your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out; it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than having two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna,

• Mark 11:15

  And they come to Jerusalem. And entering into the temple, he began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.

And 41 more times.