ἐκ | Bill Mounce

Vocabulary Form

ἐκ, ἐξ

Definition

gen: from; out of

Erasmian

Modern

Frequency

915

1666

Cognates

Ecstasy (e[kstasiV) is to stand outside of oneself.

Notes

When ἐκ is followed by a word beginning with a vowel, it is written ἐξ.

If you are really curious, the preposition proper is ἐξ. When it is followed by a word beginning with a consonant, the "sigma" in the ξι drops out (think of ξ as "xs") because it is an "interconsonantal sigma," i.e., the sigma occurs between two consonants (εξσ + consonant goes to εξ to ἐκ).

Biblical Concordance

Acts 13:30	But God raised him from (ek \| ἐκ \| prep-gen) the dead,
Acts 13:34	But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from (ek \| ἐκ \| prep-gen) the dead, no more about to return to corruption, thus he said: ‘I will give to you the sacred and sure promises made to David.’
Acts 14:8	Now there was a man sitting in Lystra, whose feet were useless, lame from (ek \| ἐκ \| prep-gen) the womb of his mother, who had never walked.
Acts 15:2	And when Paul and Barnabas had no small argument and debate with them, the brethren appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others among (ex \| ἐξ \| prep-gen) them to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders regarding this issue.
Acts 15:14	Simeon has recounted how God first concerned himself about taking from (ex \| ἐξ \| prep-gen) among the Gentiles a people for his name.
Acts 15:21	For from (ek \| ἐκ \| prep-gen) ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, because he is read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
Acts 15:22	Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, together with the whole church, to send men chosen from (ex \| ἐξ \| prep-gen) among them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas — Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers —
Acts 15:23	writing by their hand, “From the apostles and elders, your brothers, to the Gentile brothers in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, Greetings!
Acts 15:24	Since we have heard that some from (ex \| ἐξ \| prep-gen) among us have gone out and troubled you with their words, unsettling your minds — we had given them no such instructions —
Acts 15:29	that you abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from (ex \| ἐξ \| prep-gen) doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.”
Acts 17:3	explaining and demonstrating that it was necessary for the Messiah to suffer and to rise from (ek \| ἐκ \| prep-gen) the dead, and that, “This one is the Messiah, this Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you.”
Acts 17:4	And some of (ex \| ἐξ \| prep-gen) them were persuaded and cast their lot with Paul and Silas, both a great number of devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women.
Acts 17:12	So many of (ex \| ἐξ \| prep-gen) them believed, with not a few prominent Greek women and men.
Acts 17:26	And he made from (ex \| ἐξ \| prep-gen) one man every race of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted epochs and the fixed boundaries of the places where they would live,
Acts 17:31	because he has appointed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has appointed, having provided proof to all by raising him from (ek \| ἐκ \| prep-gen) the dead.”
Acts 17:33	So Paul departed from (ek \| ἐκ \| prep-gen) their midst.
Acts 18:1	After this Paul departed from (ek \| ἐκ \| prep-gen) Athens and went to Corinth.
Acts 19:16	And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, took control and overpowered all seven of them, so that they fled, naked and wounded, out (ek \| ἐκ \| prep-gen) of that house.
Acts 19:25	He called them together with workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that from (ek \| ἐκ \| prep-gen) this trade prosperity comes to us.
Acts 19:33	And some (ek \| ἐκ \| prep-gen) of the crowd prompted Alexander, the Jews pushing him forward. And Alexander motioned with his hand and wanted to make a defense to the crowd.
Acts 19:34	But when they recognized that he was a Jew, a single cry went up from (ek \| ἐκ \| prep-gen) them all as they cried out for about two hours, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
Acts 20:30	Even from (ex \| ἐξ \| prep-gen) among your own group will men arise, speaking distortions of the truth, to draw the disciples away after them.
Acts 21:8	On the next day we departed and went to Caesarea. There we went into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of (ek \| ἐκ \| prep-gen) the seven, and stayed with him.
Acts 22:6	As I journeyed and came near to Damascus, about noon suddenly out (ek \| ἐκ \| prep-gen) of heaven there flashed a brilliant light all around me.
Acts 22:14	And he said, ‘The God of our fathers has chosen you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from (ek \| ἐκ \| prep-gen) his mouth.