Quick Definition
ἐκβάλλω v. I throw, cast, put out, banish, bring forth, produce
Strong's Definition
from 1537 and 906; to eject (literally or figuratively)
KJV Usage: bring forth, cast (forth, out), drive (out), expel, leave, pluck (pull, take, thrust) out, put forth (out), send away (forth, out)
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | fut. ἐκβαλῶ · aor. ἐξέβαλον · plpf. ἐκβεβλήκειν · aor.pass. ἐξεβλήθην · fut.pass. ἐκβληθήσομαι | βάλλω
15.220 · Linear Movement · Throw, Hurl
to throw out, to jettison (from a boat) to throw out of an area or object It may be that ἐκβάλλω in MAT 21:39 is a type of hyperbole for causing to go out, but at the same time it is possible that the term ἐκβάλλω is to be understood in a literal sense.
MAT 21:39 · MRK 9:47 · MRK 12:8 · LUK 4:29 · LUK 13:28 · LUK 20:12 · LUK 20:15 · ACT 27:38
15.44 · Linear Movement · Leave, Depart, Flee, Escape, Send
to send away, to drive out, to expel to cause to go out or leave, often, but not always, involving force In referring to exorcism of evil spirits, it may be necessary in some languages to use figurative expressions, for example, ‘to pull out,’ ‘to cause to to dismount,’ or ‘to cause one’s heart to return.’
MAT 7:4 · MAT 7:5 · MAT 7:5 · MAT 8:12 · MAT 8:16 · MAT 9:25 · MAT 15:17 · MAT 21:12 · MAT 22:13 · MAT 25:30 · MRK 5:40 · MRK 11:15 · LUK 6:42 · LUK 6:42 · LUK 6:42 · LUK 19:45 · JHN 2:15 · JHN 6:37 · JHN 9:34 · JHN 9:35 · JHN 12:31 · ACT 7:58 · ACT 13:50 · ACT 16:37 · GAL 4:30 · 3JN 1:10
15.68 · Linear Movement · Leave, Depart, Flee, Escape, Send
to send, to send out, to send forth to send out or away from, presumably for some purpose
MAT 9:38 · MAT 12:35 · MAT 12:35 · MRK 1:43 · LUK 10:2 · LUK 10:35 · ACT 9:40 · JAS 2:25
15.174 · Linear Movement · Lead, Bring, Take
to lead out, to bring forth to lead or bring out of a structure or area
53.102 · Religious Activities · Exorcism
to cast out, to make go out, to exorcise to cause a demon to no longer possess or control a person The process of exorcism is expressed in different languages in a number of diverse ways, for example, ‘to make leave,’ ‘to chase away,’ ‘to force to run,’ ‘to destroy,’ ‘to overpower,’ or ‘to kill.’
MAT 7:22 · MAT 8:16 · MAT 8:31 · MAT 9:33 · MAT 9:34 · MAT 10:1 · MAT 10:8 · MAT 12:24 · MAT 12:26 · MAT 12:27 · MAT 12:27 · MAT 12:28 · MAT 17:19 · MRK 1:34 · MRK 1:39 · MRK 3:15 · MRK 3:22 · MRK 3:23 · MRK 6:13 · MRK 7:26 · MRK 9:18 · MRK 9:28 · MRK 9:38 · MRK 16:9 · MRK 16:17 · LUK 9:40 · LUK 9:49 · LUK 11:14 · LUK 11:15 · LUK 11:18 · LUK 11:19 · LUK 11:19 · LUK 11:20 · LUK 13:32
13.68 · Be, Become, Exist, Happen · Change of State
to cause to be, to make become to cause a significant change of state by decisive action In some languages, however, it may be extremely difficult to speak of ‘justice prevailing.’ The closest equivalent may be ‘until he causes all people to be treated justly’ or ‘until authorities treat all people in a just manner.’
33.396 · Communication · Insult, Slander
Collocation: ἐκβάλλω τὸ ὄνομα
to insult, to slander (an idiom, literally: to throw out the name) to insult or slander, with a possible implication of a kind of psychological ostracism
1 MRK 1:12 · JHN 10:4 It would be possible to understand ἐκβάλλω in MRK 1:12 as meaning ‘to force out’ (see 15.44) and thus to translate ‘the Spirit forced him out into the desert,’ but this meaning does not apply to JHN 10:4, where the meaning of ‘to lead’ would be the appropriate rendering.
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Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐκβάλλω ekballō 81x
pluperfect, ἐκβεβλήκειν, to cast out, eject by force, Mt. 15:17; Acts 27:38; to expel, force away, Lk. 4:29; Acts 7:58; to refuse, Jn. 6:37; to extract, Mt. 7:4; to reject with contempt, despise, contemn, Lk. 6:22; in NT to send forth, send out, Mt. 9:38; Lk. 10:2; to send away, dismiss, Mt. 9:25; Mk. 1:12; met. to spread abroad, Mt. 12:20; to bring out, produce, Mt. 12:35; 13:52
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἐκ-βάλλω
[in LXX chiefly for גָּרַשׁ pi., also for שָׁלַךְ hi., יָצָא hi., יָרַשׁ hi., etc. ;]
to drive, cast or send out, to expel: c. acc rei, mid. (σῖτον), seq. εἰς, Ac 27:38; pass., Mt 15:17; c. acc pers., Mt 21:12, Mk 11:15, al.; δαιμόνια, Mt 7:22, Mk 1:34, al.; id. seq. ἐκ, Mk 7:26; παρά, Mk 16:9; ἐν, Mk 3:22; (ἐν) τ. ὀνόματι, Mt 7:22, Mk 9:38; λόγῳ, Mt 8:16; seq. ἔξω, Jo 6:37; id. c. gen., Mk 12:8, al.; of expulsion from home, Ga 4:30; from the Church, III Jo 10.
In LXX and NT (like Heb. הזׄצׅיא and Aram. הַנְפֵּק), to command or cause to depart: Mt 9:38, Mk 1:12 (v. Swete, in l.), ib. Mk 1:43 5:40, Lk 10:2, Ja 2:25; τ. κρίσιν εἰς νῖκος (to cause to proceed to its goal), Mt 12:20 (LXX).
to reject (cl.): τ. ὄνομα ὑμῶς ὡς πονηρόν (cf. De 25:14), Lk 6:22; to leave out, Re 11:2.
to take, draw or pluck out;
with violence: Mt 7:5, Mk 9:47, Lk 6:42;
to bring forth or out of: Mt 12:35, Lk 10:35.
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐκβάλλω. In P Ryl II. 80! (i/a.p.), in view of danger threatening the Nile banks, the village elders are ordered—é«Bdadere εἰς τὰ χώματα [τοῦ Tlareplrov]”Avwr ὑδροφύλακας, “send out irrigation-guards on to the banks of the Upper Patemite district” (Edd.). With its use, no fewer than 11 times in Mk, in connexion with the driving out of demons may be compared the heading of the magical incantation in P Par 5741? (iii/A.D.) (= Selections, p. 113) πρᾶξις γενναία ἐκβάλλουσα δαίμονας, and for the literal usage, as in Mt 2112, cf. the early P Lond 887® (iii/.c.) (= III. Ρ- 1 ἐγβέβληκέ με ἐκ τῶν ἐμῶν μερῶν τῆς αὐλῆς τῆι βίαι χρώμένος, P Magd 12}} (B.C. 217) ἐγβαλεῖν με ἐκ τῶν κλήρων, and P Flor III. 3195 (Α.. 132--7) ὧν (sc. ἀρουρῶν) ἐξέβαλόν με οἱ ἐν γιτνίᾳ μου ὄντες. The sense of banishment from a family or society, as in Gal 450 (from Gen 2119), 3 Jn!°, may be paralleled from BGU IV. 10501, a marriage-contract of the time of Augustus, where a man is bound over not to illtreat his wile, μηδ᾽ ἐγβάλλειν μηδ᾽ ἄλλην γυναῖκα ἐπεισάγειν, “nor to put her away, nor to marry another woman in addition to her”: cf. P Tebt I. 1042? (B.c. 92) and 76. 105 (B.C. 103) where in a lease of land provision is made that it shall not be in the power of the lessee to let the land to | others μηδ᾽ ἐγβάλλειν τὸν ΤΤτολεμαῖον πρὸ τοῦ Χρόνου, ‘nor | to expel P. before the proper period,” also P Sa‘id Khan I. ΑΞ Ὲ (B.c. 88) (=/HS xxxv. p. 28). In P Oxy IV. 744° (B.C. 1) (= Selections, p. 33) a man writes to his wife with reference to the expected birth of a chill—édy ἣν θήλεα, ἔκβαλε, “if it is a female, expose it”; cf. Sy// 737% (c. A.D. 175) ἐπιτείμια δὲ ἔστω τὰ αὐτὰ TO εὐκόσμῳ μὴ ἐκβαλόντι τοὺς μαχομένους. Hor the meaning *‘ bring forth,” ‘* produce,” as in Mt 12%, we may point to BGU I. 19712 (A.D. 17) “de agrorum proventu,” τῶν ἐγβαλ[λομένων] καθ᾽ ἔτος ἐκ τοῦ κλήρου γενημάτων καὶ ἐπιγενημάτωϊν. A similar weakened force of the verb is found in such NT passages as Mt 1355, Lk 10%, Jn τοῦ, Jas 255. MGr βγάλλω.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἐκβάλλω (ekballō) — to expel. ἐκβάλλω, [Refs 4th c.AD+] ἐσδέλλω [Refs 4th c.BC+]future -βᾰλῶ: aorist -έβαλον: perfect -βέβληκα: passive, future -βεβλήσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+]:— throw or cast out of, with genitive, Ὀδίον μέγαν ἔκβαλε δίφρου [Refs 8th c.BC+]: absolutely, throw out, ἐκ δ᾽ εὐνὰς ἔβαλον [Refs]; καὶ τὴν μὲν..ἰχθύσι κύρμα γενέσθαι ἔκβαλον threw her overboard, [Refs 8th c.BC+]passive:
1. throw ashore, τὸν δ᾽ ἄρ᾽..νεὸς ἔκβαλε κῦμ᾽ ἐπὶ χέρσου [Refs 8th c.BC+] carry out to sea; ἐξέβαλεν ἄνεμος ἡμᾶς drove us out of our course, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, put ashore, ἵππους ἐξεβάλλοντο [Refs 5th c.BC+]; jettison, Syngr. cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+]
2. cast out of a place, Κιμμερίους ἐκβαλόντες ἐκ τῆς Εὐρώπης [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐ. ἐκ τῆς χώρας, of an enemy, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; especially of banishment, ἐκ πόλεως ἐ. drive out of the country, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a corpse, ἔξω τῆς πόλεως, τῶν ὁρίων, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with accusative only. drive out, banish, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; turn out, νεοττούς [Refs 4th c.BC+]; cast out of the synagogue, [NT+1st c.AD+]; exorcize, cast out evil spirits, [NT]; also in weakened sense, cause to depart, [Refs]
3. expose on a desertisland, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; expose a dead body, ταφῆς ἄτερ [Refs]; ἐ. τέκνα expose children, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
4. ἐ. γυναῖκα ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας divorce her, [Refs 4th c.BC+]: with simple accusative, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, [LXX]
5. cast out of his seat, depose a king, ἐ. ἕδρας Κρόνον [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐκ τυραννίδος θρόνου τ᾽[Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be ejected, of an occupier, [Refs 3rd c.BC+], etc.; χάριτος ἐκβεβλημένη [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ τῆς ἀρχῆς ἐξεβλήθησαν [Refs 5th c.BC+]
6. throw decisively in wrestling. τίν᾽ οὐ παλαίουσ᾽ ἐς τρὶς ἐ.; [Refs 5th c.BC+]
7. ἐ. φρέατα dig wells, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
8. of drugs, get rid of, τοξεύματα [Refs 1st c.AD+]
9. expel afterbirth, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
10. publish, σύνταξιν [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; issue, δόγμα[Refs]
II. strike out of, χειρῶν δ᾽ ἔκβαλλε κύπελλα [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐκβάλλεθ᾽..τευχέων πάλους throw them out of the urns, [Refs 4th c.BC+] fell trees (properly, cut them out of the forest), [Refs 8th c.BC+]
II.2. strike open, break in, ἐ. θύρετρα, πύλας, θύρας, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III. let fall, drop, χειρὸς δ᾽ ἔκβαλεν ἔγχος [Refs 8th c.BC+] let fall an idle word, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: absolutely, utter, speak, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; shed, δάκρυα δ᾽ ἔκβαλε θερμά [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐ. ἕρκος ὀδόντων cast, shed one's teeth, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; throw up blood, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; spit out, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐκβαλεῦσι τὰς κούρας their eyes will drop out, proverbial of covetous persons, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
IV. throw away, cast aside, reject, εὐμένειαν, χάριν, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; recall, repudiate, ἐ. λόγους [Refs 5th c.BC+]; annul, τοὔπος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; remoue an official from his post, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; drive an actor from the stage, [Refs]: metaphorically, of a politician, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: —passive, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
V. lose, properly by one's own fault, φρένας, τἀγαθόν. [Refs 5th c.BC+]
VI. produce, of women, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially in case of a miscarriage or abortion, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; hatch chicks, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
VI. b of plants, ἐ. καρπόν put forth fruit, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, τὰ ἐκβαλλόμενα [Refs 1st c.AD+]
VII. put out a bone or joint, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
VIII. upset, undo the effect of a speech, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]
IX. in Mathematics texts, produce a line, in passive, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐ. εἰς ἄπειρον produce to infinity, in metaphorically sense, τὰ δεινά [Refs 1st c.BC+]
IX.2. start counting, in astronomical calculations, [Refs 5th c.AD+]
X. intransitive, go out, depart, ἵν᾽ ἐκβάλω ποδὶ ἄλλην ἐπ᾽ αἶαν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the sea, break out of its bed, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of a rivcr, branch off, [Refs 5th c.BC+]