ἔξω, adverb (from 
ἐξ, as 
ἔσω and 
εἴσω from 
ἐς and 
εἰς); 
1. without, out of doors; 
a. adverbially: 
Mark 11:4; joined with verbs: 
ἑστάναι, 
Matthew 12:46, 
47 (
WH text omit the verse); 
Mark 3:31; 
Luke 8:20; 
Luke 13:25; 
John 18:16; 
John 20:11 (Lachmann omits); 
καθῆσθαι, 
Matthew 26:69; or with some other verb declaring that the person without is doing something, 
Mark 3:31. Preceded by the article 
ὁ ἔξω, absolutely, 
he who is without, properly, of place; metaphorically, in plural, 
those who do not belong to the Christian church (cf. 
Lightfoot on Col. as below; Meyer on Mark as below): 
1 Corinthians 5:12, 
13; 
Colossians 4:5; 
1 Thessalonians 4:12; 
those who are not of the number of the apostles, Mark 4:11 ((cf. Meyer) 
WH marginal reading 
ἔξωθεν, which see). With a noun added: 
αἱ ἔξω πόλεις, 
foreign, Acts 26:11; 
ὁ ἔξω ἄνθρωπος, the outer man, i. e. the body (see 
ἄνθρωπος, 1 e.), 
2 Corinthians 4:16. 
b. it takes the place of a preposition and is joined with the genitive, 
without i. e. 
out of, outside of (
Winer's Grammar, § 54, 6): 
Luke 13:33; 
Acts 21:5; 
Hebrews 13:11, 
12. 
2. after the verbs of going, sending, placing, leading, drawing, etc., which commonly take prepositions or adverbs signifying rest in a place rather than those expressive of motion toward a place, 
ἔξω has the force of the Latin
foras (German 
hinaus,
heraus), 
forth out, out of; 
a. adverbially, after the verbs 
ἐξέρχομαι, 
Matthew 26:75; 
Mark 14:68; 
Luke 22:62; 
John 19:4, 
5; 
Revelation 3:12; 
ἄγω, 
John 19:4, 
13; 
προάγω, 
Acts 16:30; 
ἐξάγω, 
Luke 24:50 (
R G L brackets); 
βάλλω and 
ἐκβάλλω, 
Matthew 5:13; 
Matthew 13:48; 
Luke 8:54 R G; 
Luke 13:28; 
14:35 (
Luke 14:34); 
John 6:37; 
John 9:34, 
35; 
John 12:31; 
John 15:6; 
Acts 9:40; 
1 John 4:18; 
Revelation 11:2 R G; 
δεῦρο ἔξω, 
John 11:43; 
ἔξω ποιεῖν τινα, 
Acts 5:34. 
b. as a preposition with the genitive: after 
ἀπελθεῖν, 
Acts 4:15; 
ἀποστέλλειν, 
Mark 5:10; 
ἐκβάλλειν, 
Mark 12:8; 
Luke 4:29; 
Luke 20:15; 
Acts 7:58; 
ἐξέρχεσθαι, 
Matthew 21:17; 
Acts 16:13; 
Hebrews 13:13; 
ἐκπορεύεσθαι, 
Mark 11:19; 
ἐξάγειν, 
Mark 8:23 (
R G L Tr marginal reading); 
σύρειν τινα, 
Acts 14:19; 
έ῾λκειν τινα, 
Acts 21:30. 
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