Bill Mounce

For an Informed Love of God

ἐκ

Vocabulary form: 
ejk, ejx
Definition: 

gen: from, out of

Frequency: 
915
GK: 
1666
Cognates: 

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

Notes: 

When ejk is followed by a word beginning with a vowel, it is written ejx.

If you are really curious, the preposition proper is ejx. When it is followed by a word beginning with a consonant, the "sigma" in the xi drops out (think of x as "xs") because it is an "interconsonantal sigma," i.e., the sigma occurs between two consonants (exs + consonant goes to ex to ejk).

Mnemonics

Ekkk! I gotta get out from here.

Exit from or out of

EK! I spat the rotten GENip OUT OF my mouth!

My ex is from...

Biblical Concordance

Acts 6:9 But there rose up some of those of (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as those from Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.
Acts 7:3 and said to him, ‘Go out from (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) your land and from (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) your relatives and come to the land that I will show you.’
Acts 7:4 Then he went out from (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God had him move to this land in which you are now living.
Acts 7:10 and rescued him out (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and over all his royal household.
Acts 7:37 This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘God will raise up a prophet for you from (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) among your brothers, as he raised up me.’
Acts 7:40 saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us, for this Moses who brought us from (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’
Acts 7:55 But Stephen, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked right into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) the right hand of God.
Acts 7:56 And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) the right hand of God.”
Acts 8:39 And when they came up out (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, but went on his way rejoicing.
Acts 9:3 As he traveled along, approaching Damascus, suddenly a light from (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) heaven shone all around him;
Acts 9:33 And he found there a man named Aeneas, bedridden for (ex | ἐξ | prep-gen) eight years, who was paralyzed.
Acts 10:1 There was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion from (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) the cohort that was called the Italian,
Acts 10:15 And a voice came again, a second time (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen), to him, “What God has made clean, you must not consider common.”
Acts 10:41 not to all the people but to witnesses who had been previously chosen by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) the dead.
Acts 10:45 And the believers, from (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) among the circumcised, who came with Peter, were amazed that even on the Gentiles was the gift of the Holy Spirit poured out.
Acts 11:2 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, they who were of (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) the circumcision took issue with him,
Acts 11:5 “I was in the city of Joppa, praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, an object descending, like a great sheet being let down by its four corners from (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) heaven, and it came close to me.
Acts 11:9 But the voice replied a second time (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) from (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) heaven, ‘What God has made clean, you must not consider common.’
Acts 11:20 But there were some of (ex | ἐξ | prep-gen) them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch began to speak also to the Hellenists, preaching the Lord Jesus.
Acts 11:28 And one of (ex | ἐξ | prep-gen) them stood up, named Agabus, and indicated by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world (which took place in the days of Claudius).
Acts 12:7 And behold, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared, and a light shone in the cell. He struck the side of Peter and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) his hands.
Acts 12:11 When Peter came to himself, he said, “Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) the hand of Herod and from (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) all that the Jewish people were expecting.”
Acts 12:17 But Peter motioned to them with his hand to be silent, and he related how the Lord had brought him out (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) of the prison. And he said, “Tell these things to James and to the brothers.” Then he departed and went to another place.
Acts 13:17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt; then with uplifted arm he led them out (ex | ἐξ | prep-gen) of it.
Acts 13:21 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul, son of Kish, a man from (ek | ἐκ | prep-gen) the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.
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.

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