Word study

Outside

6 Hebrew and 4 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “outside”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

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How often each original word is translated “outside” or one of its forms.

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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • חוּץ chûtsthe outsidetranslated this way 72 times of its 156 uses · Strong’s H2351Noun  ·  Translated: outside 70, streets 38, out 11, street 11

    Genesis 9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

    Exodus 21:19 then the one who struck him shall go unpunished, as long as the other can get up and walk around outside with his staff. Nevertheless, he must compensate the man for his lost work and see that he is completely healed.

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  • יָצָא yâtsâgo or come outtranslated this way 5 times of its 1,035 uses · Strong’s H3318Verb  ·  Translated: brought 108, went 103, go 82, came 78

    Leviticus 8:33 You must not go outside the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are complete; for it will take seven days to ordain you.

    Numbers 35:26 But if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled

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  • חִיצוֹן chîtsônouter, externaltranslated this way 3 times of its 24 uses · Strong’s H2435Adjective  ·  Translated: outer 14, outside 3, outer sanctuaries 2, faced the outer 2

    2 Kings 16:18 And on account of the king of Assyria, he removed the Sabbath canopy they had built in the temple and closed the royal entryway outside the house of the LORD.

    1 Chronicles 26:29 From the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons had the outside duties as officers and judges over Israel.

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  • פֶּתַח pethachopening, doorway, entrancetranslated this way 2 times of its 157 uses · Strong’s H6607Noun  ·  Translated: entrance 107, door 14, doorway 13, doors 5

    Genesis 19:6 Lot went outside to meet them, shutting the door behind him.

    Ezekiel 41:17 In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary on all the walls, spaced evenly around the inner and outer sanctuary,

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  • מִן minout of, from, on account of, off, on the side of, since, above, than, so that nottranslated this way 2 times of its 983 uses · Strong’s H4480Preposition  ·  Translated: from 368, of 68, from me 36, some of 33

    Exodus 12:46 It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.

    Exodus 33:7 Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it at a distance outside the camp. He called it the Tent of Meeting, and anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the Tent of Meeting outside the camp.

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  • עַל alheighttranslated this way 2 times of its 4,859 uses · Strong’s H5921Preposition  ·  Translated: on 777, over 297, in 218, against 216Full study and all 3,996 verses →

Greek words (New Testament)

  • ἔξω éxōwithout, outsidetranslated this way 23 times of its 60 uses · Strong’s G1854Adverb  ·  Translated: outside 23, out 21, out of 8, away 3

    Matthew 12:46 While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, His mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to Him.

    Mark 3:31 Then Jesus’ mother and brothers came and stood outside. They sent someone in to summon Him,

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  • ἔξωθεν éxōthenfrom without, outsidetranslated this way 10 times of its 12 uses · Strong’s G1855Adverb  ·  Translated: outside 10, outsiders 1, outward 1

    Matthew 23:25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

    Mark 7:15 Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him.”

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  • ἐκβάλλω ekbállōI throw, cast, put out, banish, bring forth, producetranslated this way 2 times of its 81 uses · Strong’s G1544Verb  ·  Translated: drive 22, drove 8, threw 5, take 4

    Matthew 9:25 After the crowd had been put outside, Jesus went in and took the girl by the hand, and she got up.

    Mark 5:40 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.

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  • ἐκτός ektóswithout, outside, except, the outside, apart fromtranslated this way 2 times of its 8 uses · Strong’s G1622Adverb  ·  Translated: outside 2

    Matthew 23:26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.

    1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.