hektos · outside, except

What it means

hektos (ἕκτος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “outside, except”.

Outside, out of; "the outside"; also except.

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 what is outside something, or what is left out of what was said.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

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

• except ×2
• outside ×2
• unless ×2
• apart from ×1
• out of ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Acts×1
• 1 Corinthians×4
• 2 Corinthians×1
• 1 Timothy×1

• Matthew 23:26

  Blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may also become clean.

• Acts 26:22

  So, having obtained the help that comes from God, to this day I stand testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said would take place:

• 1 Corinthians 6:18

  Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

• 1 Corinthians 14:5

  Now I want all of you to speak in tongues, but even more that you prophesy; and the one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the assembly may receive building up.

• 1 Corinthians 15:2

  through which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the word in which I proclaimed it to you, unless you believed in vain.

• 1 Corinthians 15:27

  For he subjected all things under his feet. But when he says all things have been subjected, it is clear that this is apart from the one who subjected all things to him.

• 2 Corinthians 12:2

  I know a man in the Messiah fourteen years ago —whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know; God knows— that such a one was caught up to the third heaven.

• 1 Timothy 5:19

  Do not accept an accusation against an elder except on the basis of two or three witnesses.