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Greek verb · G1544

ἐκβάλλω

ekballoek-bal'-lo

to drive, cast; In LXX and NT (like; to reject; to take, draw

79 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ekbállō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1544is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 31
    spellings
  • 4
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G1544

to eject (literally or figuratively)

The King James renders it: bring forth, cast (forth, out), drive (out), expel, leave, pluck (pull, take, thrust) out, put forth (out), send away (forth, out).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

ekballo is rendered "to drive, cast; In LXX and NT (like; to reject; to take, draw". It stands 79 times in the Greek text, across nine books.

  • Twenty-eight of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists four meanings for it, beginning with "to drive, cast".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 7:4How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?
  • The Greek text spells it thirty-one different ways.

The first use

How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?

Matthew 7:4ἐκβάλω

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Twenty-eight of the word's seventy-nine uses are in Matthew.

The other 18 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries four meanings: to drive, cast, and In LXX and NT (like, and to reject, and to take, draw.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
to drive, castor send out, to expelTagged as
  • to cast out9
  • cast out6
  • casting out6
  • He casts out4
  • they cast3
  • casts out2
  • do they cast out2
  • He cast out2

and 22 more, 56 uses in all

WhereMatthew 7:22Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name…
In LXX and NT (likeTagged as
  • He may send out2
  • drives out1
  • having sent forth1
  • He sent away1
  • He shall lead1
WhereMatthew 9:38Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest.”
to rejectTagged as
  • they may cast out3
  • do leave1
WhereDeuteronomy 25:14You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.
to take, drawor pluck outTagged as
  • do cast out7
  • puts forth3
  • I may cast out2
  • having taken out1
WhereMatthew 7:5You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye…

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

ἔκβασιςekbasisway outUses2

All 79, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

31 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • ἐκβάλλει9
  • ἐκβάλλειν6
  • ἐξέβαλον6
  • ἔκβαλε5
  • ἐκβάλῃ5
  • ἐκβάλλω5
  • ἐξέβαλεν5
  • ἐκβαλεῖν4
  • ἐκβάλλουσιν3
  • ἐκβάλω3
  • ἐκβαλὼν3
  • ἐκβάλωσιν3

and 19 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singular10V-PAI-3S
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural7V-2AAI-3P
  • verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)6V-PAN
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular5V-2AAI-3S
  • verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singular5V-2AAM-2S
  • verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular5V-2AAS-3S
  • verb · present active, indicative · 1st person singular5V-PAI-1S
  • verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)4V-2AAN
  • verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular3V-2AAP-NSM
  • verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singular3V-2AAS-1S
  • verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person plural3V-2AAS-3P
  • verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person plural3V-PAI-3P

Matthew

twenty-eight uses
  • How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while there is still a beam in your own eye?

    Matthew 7:4

    • ἐκβάλωekbaloverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: I may cast out
  • You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

    Matthew 7:5

    • ἔκβαλεekbaleverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do cast out
    • ἐκβαλεῖνekbaleinverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to cast out
  • Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’

    Matthew 7:22

    • ἐξεβάλομενexebalomenverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: cast out
  • But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

    Matthew 8:12

    • ἐκβληθήσονταιekblethesontaiverb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: will be cast out
  • When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to Jesus, and He drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick.

    Matthew 8:16

    • ἐξέβαλενexebalenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He cast out
  • So the demons begged Jesus, “If You drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

    Matthew 8:31

    • ἐκβάλλειςekballeisverb · present active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: You cast out
  • After the crowd had been put outside, Jesus went in and took the girl by the hand, and she got up.

    Matthew 9:25

    • ἐξεβλήθηexebletheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was put outside
  • And when the demon had been driven out, the man began to speak. The crowds were amazed and said, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!”

    Matthew 9:33

    • ἐκβληθέντοςekblethentosverb · aorist passive, participle · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: when had been cast out
  • But the Pharisees said, “It is by the prince of demons that He drives out demons.”

    Matthew 9:34

    • ἐκβάλλειekballeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He casts out
  • Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest.”

    Matthew 9:38

    • ἐκβάλῃekbaleverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: He may send out
  • And calling His twelve disciples to Him, Jesus gave them authority over unclean spirits, so that they could drive them out and heal every disease and sickness.

    Matthew 10:1

    • ἐκβάλλεινekballeinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to cast out
  • Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.

    Matthew 10:8

    • ἐκβάλλετεekballeteverb · present active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do cast out
  • A bruised reed He will not break, and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish, till He leads justice to victory.

    Matthew 12:20

    • ἐκβάλῃekbaleverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: He shall lead
  • But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “Only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, does this man drive out demons.”

    Matthew 12:24

    • ἐκβάλλειekballeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: casts out
  • If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand?

    Matthew 12:26

    • ἐκβάλλειekballeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: casts out
  • And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.

    Matthew 12:27

    • ἐκβάλλωekballoverb · present active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: cast out
    • ἐκβάλλουσινekballousinverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: do they cast out
  • But if I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

    Matthew 12:28

    • ἐκβάλλωekballoverb · present active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: cast out
  • The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure.

    Matthew 12:35

    • ἐκβάλλειekballeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: puts forth
    • ἐκβάλλειekballeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: puts forth
  • Then He told them, “For this reason, every scribe who has been discipled in the kingdom of heaven is like a homeowner who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.”

    Matthew 13:52

    • ἐκβάλλειekballeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: puts forth
  • “Do you not yet realize that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then is eliminated?

    Matthew 15:17

    • ἐκβάλλεταιekballetaiverb · present passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: is cast out
  • Afterward the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”

    Matthew 17:19

    • ἐκβαλεῖνekbaleinverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to cast out
  • Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.

    Matthew 21:12

    • ἐξέβαλενexebalenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: cast out
  • So they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

    Matthew 21:39

    • ἐξέβαλονexebalonverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they cast
  • Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

    Matthew 22:13

    • ἐκβάλετεekbaleteverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do cast out
  • And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

    Matthew 25:30

    • ἐκβάλετεekbaleteverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do cast out

Mark

sixteen uses
  • At once the Spirit drove Jesus into the wilderness,

    Mark 1:12

    • ἐκβάλλειekballeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: drives out
  • And He healed many who were ill with various diseases and drove out many demons. But He would not allow the demons to speak, because they knew who He was.

    Mark 1:34

    • ἐξέβαλενexebalenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He cast out
  • So He went throughout Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons.

    Mark 1:39

    • ἐκβάλλων.¶ekballonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: casting out
  • Jesus promptly sent him away with a stern warning:

    Mark 1:43

    • ἐξέβαλενexebalenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He sent away
  • and to have authority to drive out demons.

    Mark 3:15

    • ἐκβάλλεινekballeinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to cast out
  • And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons He drives out demons.”

    Mark 3:22

    • ἐκβάλλειekballeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He casts out
  • So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?

    Mark 3:23

    • ἐκβάλλεινekballeinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to cast out
  • And they laughed at Him. After He had put them all outside, He took the child’s father and mother and His own companions, and went in to see the child.

    Mark 5:40

    • ἐκβαλὼνekbalonverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having put out
  • They also drove out many demons and healed many of the sick, anointing them with oil.

    Mark 6:13

    • ἐξέβαλλονexeballonverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were casting out
  • Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.

    Mark 7:26

    • ἐκβάλῃekbaleverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: He may cast forth
  • Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable.”

    Mark 9:18

    • ἐκβάλωσινekbalosinverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person pluraltagged: they may cast out
  • After Jesus had gone into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”

    Mark 9:28

    • ἐκβαλεῖνekbaleinverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to cast out
  • John said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone else driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not accompany us.”

    Mark 9:38

    • ἐκβάλλονταekballontaverb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: casting out
  • And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,

    Mark 9:47

    • ἔκβαλεekbaleverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do cast out
  • When they arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.

    Mark 11:15

    • ἐκβάλλεινekballeinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to cast out
  • So they seized the son, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.

    Mark 12:8

    • ἐξέβαλονexebalonverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: cast forth

Luke

twenty uses
  • They got up, drove Him out of the town, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw Him over the cliff.

    Luke 4:29

    • ἐξέβαλονexebalonverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they cast
  • Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.

    Luke 6:22

    • ἐκβάλωσινekbalosinverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person pluraltagged: they may cast out
  • How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

    Luke 6:42

    • ἐκβάλωekbaloverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: I may cast out
    • ἔκβαλεekbaleverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do cast out
    • ἐκβαλεῖνekbaleinverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to cast out
  • I begged Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable.”

    Luke 9:40

    • ἐκβάλωσινekbalosinverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person pluraltagged: they may cast out
  • “Master,” said John, “we saw someone driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not accompany us.”

    Luke 9:49

    • ἐκβάλλονταekballontaverb · present active, participle · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: casting out
  • And He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest.

    Luke 10:2

    • ἐκβάλῃekbaleverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: He may send out
  • The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Take care of him,’ he said, ‘and on my return I will repay you for any additional expense.’

    Luke 10:35

    • ἐκβαλὼνekbalonverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having taken out
  • One day Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute. And when the demon was gone, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed,

    Luke 11:14

    • ἐκβάλλωνekballonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: casting out
  • but some of them said, “It is by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons, that He drives out demons.”

    Luke 11:15

    • ἐκβάλλειekballeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He casts out
  • If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? After all, you say that I drive out demons by Beelzebul.

    Luke 11:18

    • ἐκβάλλεινekballeinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: casting out
  • And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.

    Luke 11:19

    • ἐκβάλλωekballoverb · present active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: cast out
    • ἐκβάλλουσινekballousinverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: do they cast out
  • But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

    Luke 11:20

    • ἐκβάλλωekballoverb · present active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: cast out
  • There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are thrown out.

    Luke 13:28

    • ἐκβαλλομένουςekballomenousverb · present passive, participle · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: are being cast
  • But Jesus replied, “Go tell that fox, ‘Look, I will keep driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach My goal.’

    Luke 13:32

    • ἐκβάλλωekballoverb · present active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I cast out
  • Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling there.

    Luke 19:45

    • ἐκβάλλεινekballeinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to cast out
  • Then he sent a third, but they wounded him and threw him out.

    Luke 20:12

    • ἐξέβαλον.¶exebalonverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they cast out
  • So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

    Luke 20:15

    • ἐκβαλόντεςekbalontesverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having cast forth

John

six uses
  • So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

    John 2:15

    • ἐξέβαλενexebalenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He drove out
  • Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.

    John 6:37

    • ἐκβάλωekbaloverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 1st person singulartagged: shall I cast
  • They replied, “You were born in utter sin, and you are instructing us?” And they threw him out.

    John 9:34

    • ἐξέβαλονexebalonverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they cast
  • When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, He found the man and said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

    John 9:35

    • ἐξέβαλονexebalonverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they had cast
  • When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.

    John 10:4

    • ἐκβάλῃekbaleverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: he may bring out
  • Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.

    John 12:31

    • ἐκβληθήσεταιekblethesetaiverb · future passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will be cast

Acts

five uses
  • They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

    Acts 7:58

    • ἐκβαλόντεςekbalontesverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having cast
  • Then Peter sent them all out of the room. He knelt down and prayed, and turning toward her body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up.

    Acts 9:40

    • ἐκβαλὼνekbalonverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Having put
  • The Jews, however, incited the religious women of prominence and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their district.

    Acts 13:50

    • ἐξέβαλονexebalonverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: expelled
  • But Paul said to the officers, “They beat us publicly without a trial and threw us into prison, even though we are Roman citizens. And now do they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! Let them come themselves and escort us out!”

    Acts 16:37

    • ἐκβάλλουσινekballousinverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: do they throw out
  • After the men had eaten their fill, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.

    Acts 27:38

    • ἐκβαλλόμενοιekballomenoiverb · present middle, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: casting out

Galatians

one use
  • But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”

    Galatians 4:30

    • ἔκβαλεekbaleverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do cast out

James

one use
  • In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute justified by her actions when she welcomed the spies and sent them off on another route?

    James 2:25

    • ἐκβαλοῦσαekbalousaverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: having sent forth

3 John

one use
  • So if I come, I will call attention to his malicious slander against us. And unsatisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers and forbids those who want to do so, even putting them out of the church.

    3 John 1:10

    • ἐκβάλλει.¶ekballeiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he casts out

Revelation

one use
  • But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.

    Revelation 11:2

    • ἔκβαλεekbaleverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do leave

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