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ἐκχέω
ekchéō · Greek · Strong's G1632 · 27 occurrences
The KJV renders 15 different Hebrew and Greek words as “forth”
What it means
to pour forth; figuratively, to bestow
from G1537 (ἐκ) and (to pour);
How the KJV renders it
gush out, run greedily, shed abroad, forth, spill
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“forth”
also renders hístēmi (G2476), anágō (G321), apostéllō (G649), exapostéllō (G1821), exérchomai (G1831), katágō (G2609), parágō (G3855), poreúomai (G4198), éxō (G1854), hâlak (H1980), ṭûwl (H2904), yâtsab (H3320), kûwn (H3559), ʻâbar (H5674)
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Where it appears
27 occurrences in the Greek text.
Acts 1:18 · V-API-3S
Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness; and falling headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines gushed out.
Acts 2:17 · V-FAI-1S
‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.
Acts 2:18 · V-FAI-1S
Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
Acts 2:33 · V-AAI-3S
Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which you now see and hear.
Acts 10:45 · V-RPI-3S
They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.
Acts 22:20 · V-IPI-3S
When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’
John 2:15 V-AAI-3SJude 1:11 V-API-3PLuke 5:37 V-FPI-3SLuke 11:50 V-PPP-NSNLuke 22:20 V-PPP-NSNMatthew 9:17 V-PPI-3SMatthew 23:35 V-PPP-NSNMatthew 26:28 V-PPP-NSNMark 14:24 V-PPP-NSNRevelation 16:1 V-PAM-2PRevelation 16:2 V-AAI-3SRevelation 16:3 V-AAI-3SRevelation 16:4 V-AAI-3SRevelation 16:6 V-AAI-3PRevelation 16:8 V-AAI-3SRevelation 16:10 V-AAI-3SRevelation 16:12 V-AAI-3SRevelation 16:17 V-AAI-3SRomans 3:15 V-AANRomans 5:5 V-RPI-3STitus 3:6 V-AAI-3S
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