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ἐξαιρέω

exaireō · take out, rescue

Greek word · Strong’s number G1807 · appears 8 times in the Bible

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What it means

exaireō (ἐξαιρέω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “take out, rescue”.

Take out, tear out; also rescue, deliver; choose.

How to say it

e·xai·re·ō

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 take out completely, like an eye.
  2. To snatch someone out of the hands of whoever oppresses or threatens them.

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

How it is translated

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

  • rescued ×3
  • rescue ×2
  • rescuing ×1
  • tear it out ×1
  • tear out ×1

Related words

Comes from

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

Where it appears

  • Matthew 5:29

    And if your right eye causes you to stumble, tear it out and throw it away from you; for it is better for you that one of your members perish and not your whole body be thrown into Gehenna.

  • Matthew 18:9

    And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter into life with one eye than having two eyes to be thrown into fiery Gehenna.

  • Acts 7:10

    and rescued him from all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his household.

  • Acts 7:34

    I have surely seen the mistreatment of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.’

  • Acts 12:11

    And Peter, coming to himself, said, “Now I know truly that the Lord has sent out his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.”

  • Acts 23:27

    This man, seized by the Jews and about to be killed by them, coming on them with the troops, I rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman.

  • Acts 26:17

    rescuing you from the people and from the nations, to whom I am sending you,

  • Galatians 1:4

    who gave himself for our sins so that he might rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,