UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: prep. (with gen.), advb.

Constructions: ἔξωθεν; ἐκ; ὠθέω; push

Sense 1: from outside

Semantic entry: 84.15

Semantic domains: Spacial Extensions

Subdomains: Extension From a Source

Definition: extension from a source which is outside

MRK 7:15: RV MRK 7:15 · LV MRK 7:15 · Read together MRK 7:15

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OET-RV MRK 7:15

15 Nothing that enters your mouth makes you guilty in God’s eyes. It’s what comes out of you that demonstrates your culpability.”

OET-LV MRK 7:15

15 there _is nothing outside the person entering _in into him, which is _able to _defile him but the things going _out out _of the person is the things defiling the person.

MRK 7:18: RV MRK 7:18 · LV MRK 7:18 · Read together MRK 7:18

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OET-RV MRK 7:18

18 “Can’t you understand something so simple,” he scolded them. “Can’t you see that anything from the outside that enters your body doesn’t make you guilty in God’s sight,

OET-LV MRK 7:18

18 And he _is _saying to _them:
Are you _all thus also unintelligent?
You _all _are_ not _understanding that everything the part outside entering _in into the person is_ not _able to _defile him,

Sense 2: outside, apart from

Semantic entry: 83.20

Semantic domains: Spacial Positions

Subdomains: Around, About, Outside

Definition: a position not contained within a particular area

CO2 7:5: RV CO2 7:5 · LV CO2 7:5 · Read together CO2 7:5

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OET-RV CO2 7:5

5 Actually, since we arrived in Makedonia we’ve had no physical rest but we’ve been oppressed in every way—on the outside there’s quarrels and on the inside we’ve had our fears,

OET-LV CO2 7:5

5 For/Because also having _come of _us into Makedonia, not _one has _had relaxation the flesh of _us, but in everything being _oppressed, outside quarrels, inside fears.

REV 11:2: RV REV 11:2 · LV REV 11:2 · Read together REV 11:2

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OET-RV REV 11:2

2 but exclude the outer courtyard. Don’t measure that because it’s been given to the non-Jews, and they’ll tread around the holy city for three and a half years.

OET-LV REV 11:2

2 And the courtyard which outside the temple, throw _out outside and not it you _may _measure, because it _was _given to _the nations, and the city the holy they _will _be _treading forty for _months two.

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

CO2: RV CO2 7:5 · LV CO2 7:5 · Read together CO2 7:5

REV: RV REV 11:2 · RV REV 14:20 · LV REV 11:2 · LV REV 14:20 · Read together REV 11:2 · Read together REV 14:20

Sense 3: on the outside, outside of

Semantic entry: 83.21

Semantic domains: Spacial Positions

Subdomains: Around, About, Outside

Definition: the outside surface of an object

Notes: The manner in which ἔξωθεν[c], ἐκτός[b], and ὄπισθεν[c] may be rendered in particular contexts depends very largely upon what is being spoken about. For example, ἔξωθεν in RV PE1 3:3 · LV PE1 3:3 · Read together PE1 3:3 refers to the outward aids employed in making oneself beautiful, but instead of speaking of such objects as being on the surface or on the outside, it may be necessary to speak of those things which one puts on the body or what one wears.

MAT 23:25: RV MAT 23:25 · LV MAT 23:25 · Read together MAT 23:25

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OET-RV MAT 23:25

25 “You religious teachers and Farisaios are hypocrites and will have a bad end, because you scrub the outsides of your cups and bowls, but the insides are still full of greed and selfishness.

OET-LV MAT 23:25

25 Woe to _you _all, scribes and Farisaios_party, hypocrites.
Because you _all _are _cleansing the part outside of _the cup and of _the dish, but inside they _are _being _full of theft and intemperance.

MAT 23:27: RV MAT 23:27 · LV MAT 23:27 · Read together MAT 23:27

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OET-RV MAT 23:27

27 “You religious teachers and Farisaios are hypocrites and will have a bad end, because you’re like whitewashed tombs. On the outside they might look nice, but the insides are full of dead people’s bones and all kinds of impurities,

OET-LV MAT 23:27

27 Woe to _you _all, scribes and Farisaios_party, hypocrites.
Because you _all _are _being _like to _tombs having _been _whitewashed, which on _one _hand are _appearing beautiful outwardly, on _the _other _hand inside they _are _being _full of _bones of_the_dead and of _all impurity.

All 6 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: RV MAT 23:25 · RV MAT 23:27–28 · LV MAT 23:25 · LV MAT 23:27–28 · Read together MAT 23:25 · Read together MAT 23:27–28

LUK: RV LUK 11:39–40 · LV LUK 11:39–40 · Read together LUK 11:39–40

PE1: RV PE1 3:3 · LV PE1 3:3 · Read together PE1 3:3

Sense 4: outsider

Semantic entry: 11.10

Semantic domains: Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes

Subdomains: General

Definition: (a figurative extension of meaning of ἔξωθεν[a] ‘from outside,’ 83.20: ἐκτός / 83.20: ἔξω / 83.20: ἔξωθεν) a person who is not a member of a particular in-group

Notes: In a number of languages it may be appropriate to render RV TI1 3:7 · LV TI1 3:7 · Read together TI1 3:7 as ‘he should be a man who is respected by those who are not believers’ or ‘… by those who are not followers of Christ.’

Collocations: ὁ ἔξωθεν

TI1 3:7: RV TI1 3:7 · LV TI1 3:7 · Read together TI1 3:7

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OET-RV TI1 3:7

7 It’s also fitting for him to have a good reputation with those outside the assembly, so that he doesn’t end up getting mocked, and from there falling into the devil’s trap.

OET-LV TI1 3:7

7 And it _is _fitting him also, to _be _having a_ good _testimony from the ones outside, in _order _that he _may_ not _fall _in into derision and the_snare of _the devil.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἔξωθεν

Form 1

Sense 1: from outside

Sense 2: outside, apart from

Sense 3: on the outside, outside of

Sense 4: outsider