Strong's Concordance ektos: the exterior, fig. (as a preposition) aside from, besides Original Word: ἐκτόςPart of Speech: Adverb Transliteration: ektos Phonetic Spelling: (ek-tos') Short Definition: without, outside, except, the outside, apart from Definition: (a) adv: (1) without, outside, beyond, (2) except, (3) subst: the outside, (b) prep: outside, apart from. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1622: ἐκτόςἐκτός, adverb (opposed to ἐντός, which see), outside, beyond; a. s τό ἐκτός, the outside, exterior, with possessive the genitive, Matthew 23:26 (cf. τό ἔξωθεν τοῦ ποτηρίου, 25). On the pleonastic phrase ἐκτός εἰ μή, see εἰ, III. 8 d. b. It has the force of a preposition (cf. Winers Grammar, § 54, 6), and is followed by the genitive (so even in Homer); αα. outside of: ἐκτός τοῦ σώματος out of the body, i. e. freed from it, 2 Corinthians 12:2f. (in 2 Corinthians 12:3 L T Tr WH read χωρίς for ἐκτός); εἶναι ἐκτός τοῦ σώματος (A. V. without the body, i. e.), does not pertain to the body, 1 Corinthians 6:18. β. beyond, besides, except: Acts 26:22 (where the construction is οὐδέν λέγων ἐκτός τούτων, ἅτε οἱ ... ἐλάλησαν etc. (cf. Buttmann, 287 (246); Winer's Grammar, 158f (149f)); 1 Corinthians 15:27. (the Sept. for לְבַד followed by מִן, Judges 8:26; מִלְּבַד, 1 Kings 10:13; 2 Chronicles 9:12; 2 Chronicles 17:19.) From ek; the exterior; figuratively (as a preposition) aside from, besides -- but, except(-ed), other than, out of, outside, unless, without. see GREEK ek Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 16228 Occurrences ἐκτὸς — 8 Occ. Matthew 23:26 Adv GRK: καὶ τὸ ἐκτὸς αὐτοῦ καθαρόν NAS: so that the outside of it may become KJV: that the outside of them INT: also the outside of them clean Acts 26:22 Adv 1 Corinthians 6:18 Adv 1 Corinthians 14:5 Adv 1 Corinthians 15:2 Adv 1 Corinthians 15:27 Adv 2 Corinthians 12:2 Adv 1 Timothy 5:19 Adv |