Word Summary
exēcheō: to sound forth
Original Word: ἐξηχέωTransliteration: exēcheō
Phonetic Spelling: (ex-ay-kheh'-om-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to sound forth
Meaning: to sound forth
Strong's Concordance
sound forth.
Middle voice from ek and echeo; to "echo" forth, i.e. Resound (be generally reported) -- sound forth.
see GREEK ek
see GREEK echeo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1837: ἐξηχέωἐξηχέω,
ἐξήχω:
to sound forth, emit sound, resound; passive
ἐξηχειται τί the sound of something is borne forth, is propagated:
ἀφ' ὑμῶν ἐξήχεται ὁ λόγος τοῦ κυρίου, from your city or from your church the word of the Lord has sounded forth i. e. has been disseminated by report,
1 Thessalonians 1:8, cf. DeWette at the passage (
Joel 3:14 (
); Sir. 40:13; 3Macc. 3:2. Polybius 30, 4, 7 (not Dindorf); Philo in Flacc. § 6; (quis rer. div. her. § 4); Byzantine.)