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To expel

ἐκβάλλωStrong’s G1544

ekballō

Appears in 76 verses of the New Testament

In short

Ekballō is the Greek word usually translated “cast out”, “do cast out” and “casting out”. It appears in 76 verses of the New Testament.

“Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.”
3 John 1:10 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “cast out”, “do cast out” and “casting out”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • to cast out 9
  • do cast out 7
  • cast out 6
  • casting out 6
  • he casts out 4
  • puts forth 3
  • they cast 3
  • they may cast out 3

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Matthew 25
  • Mark 18
  • Luke 18
  • John 6
  • Acts 5
  • Galatians 1

9 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 76 verses, by book
Galatians 1
4:30
James 1
2:25
3 John 1
1:10
Revelation 1
11:2
Greek dictionary

ἐκβάλλω ekballō · to expel

ἐκ-βάλλω [in LXX chiefly for גָּרַשׁ pi., also for שָׁלַךְ hi., יָצָא hi., יָרַשׁ hi., etc. ;] 1. to drive, cast or send out, to expel: with accusative of thing(s), mid. (σῖτον), before εἰς, Act.27:38; pass., Mat.15:17; with accusative of person(s), Mat.21:12, Mrk.11:15, al.; δαιμόνια, Mat.7:22, Mrk.1:34, al.; id. before ἐκ, Mrk.7:26; παρά, Mrk.16:9; ἐν, Mrk.3:22; (ἐν) τ. ὀνόματι, Mat.7:22, Mrk.9:38; λόγῳ, Mat.8:16; before ἔξω, Jhn.6:37; id. with genitive, Mrk.12:8, al.; of expulsion from home, Gal.4:30; from the Church, III Jn 10. …

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “cast” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

CAST, verb transitive

preterit tense And participle passive cast

  1. To throw, fling or send; that is, to drive from, by force, as from the hand, or from an engine.“Uzziah prepared slings to cast stones” 2 Chronicles 26:14
  2. To sow; to scatter seed.“If a man should cast seen into the ground” Mark 4:26
  3. To drive or impel by violence.“A mighty west wind cast the locusts into the sea” Exodus 10:19
  4. To shed or throw off; as, trees cast their fruit; a serpent casts his skin.
All definitions and other forms of “cast”
  1. To throw or let fall; as, to cast anchor.
  2. To throw, as dice or lots; as, to cast lots.
  3. To throw on the ground, as in wrestling.
  4. To throw away, as worthless.“His carcase was cast in the way” 1 Kings 13:24
  5. To emit or throw out.
  6. To throw, to extend, as a trench or rampart, including the sense of digging, raising, or forming.“Thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee” Luke 19:43
  7. To thrust; as, to cast into prison.
  8. To put, or set, in a particular state.“Both chariot and horse were cast into a dead sleep” Psalms 76:6
  9. To condemn; to convict; as a criminal.
  10. To overcome in a civil suit, or in any contest of strength or skill; as, to cast the defendant or an antagonist.
  11. To cashier or discard.
  12. To lay aside, as unfit for use; to reject; as a garment.
  13. To make to preponderate; to throw into one scale, for the purpose of giving it superior weight; to decide by a vote that gives a superiority in numbers; as, to cast the balance in ones favor; a casting vote or voice.
  14. To throw together several particulars, to find the sum; as, to cast accounts.
  15. To contrive; to plan.
  16. To judge, or to consider, in order to judge.
  17. To fix, or distribute the parts of a play among the actors.
  18. To throw, as the sight; to direct, or turn, as the eye; to glance; as, to cast a look, or glance, or the eye.
  19. To found; to form into a particular shape, by pouring liquid metal into a mold; to run; as, to cast cannon.“Thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it” Exodus 25:12
  20. Figuratively, to shape; to form by a model.
  21. To communicate; to spread over; as, to cast a luster upon posterity; to cast splendor upon actions, or light upon a subject.“Why art thou cast down, O my soul” Psalms 42:5

CAST, verb intransitive

  1. To throw forward, as the thoughts, with a view to some determination; or to turn or revolve in the mind; to contrive; sometimes followed by about.
  2. To receive form or shape.
  3. To warp; to twist from regular shape.
  4. In seamens language, to fall off, or incline, so as to bring the side of a ship to the wind; applied particularly to a ship riding with her head to the wind, when her anchor is first loosened.

CAST, noun

  1. The act of casting; a throw; the thing thrown; the form or state of throwing; kind or manner of throwing.
  2. The distance passed by a thing thrown; or the space through which a thing thrown may ordinarily pass; as, about a stones cast Luke 22:41
  3. A stroke; a touch.
  4. Motion or turn of the eye; direction, look or glance; a squinting.
  5. A throw of dice; hence, a state of chance or hazard.
  6. Form; shape.
  7. A tinge; a slight coloring, or slight degree of a color; as a cast of green.
  8. Manner; air; mien; as, a peculiar cast of countenance.
  9. A flight; a number of hawks let go at once.
  10. A small statue of bronze.
  11. Among founders, a tube of wax, fitted into a mold, to give shape to metal.
  12. A cylindrical piece of brass or copper, slit in two lengthwise, to form a canal or conduit, in a mold, for conveying metal.
  13. Among plumbers, a little brazen funnel, at one end of a mold, for casting pipes without sodering, by means of which the melted metal is poured into the mold.
  14. A breed, race, lineage, kind, sort.
  15. In Hindoostan, a tribe or class of the same rank or profession; as the cast of Bramins, or priests; of rajahs, or princes; of choutres, or artificers; and of parias, or poor people.
  16. A trick.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.