Quick Definition
ἐκχωρέω v. I go out, depart from
Strong's Definition
from 1537 and 5562; to depart
KJV Usage: depart out
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | χωρέω
15.41 · Linear Movement · Leave, Depart, Flee, Escape, Send
to depart, to leave, to go out of to move out of or away from a place, with a possible implication of a considerable distance separating a person from the earlier location
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐκ-χωρέω, -@; [fr. Soph. and Hdt. on}; to depart from; to remove from in the sense of fleeing from: Lk. xxi. 21. (For n73, Am. vii. 12.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐκχωρέω ekchōreō 1x
to go out, depart from, flee, Lk. 21:21*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
εκ-χωρέω, -ῶ
[in LXX: Nu 16:45 (רוּם ni.), Jg 7:3 (צָפַר), Am 7:12 (בָּרַח), I Es 4:44, 57, I Mac 9:62 * ;]
to depart, withdraw: Lk 21:21.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐκχωρέω is used absolutely, as in Lk 2124, in P Lond 1061 (B.C. 261 Other exx. of the verb are P Magd 207 (B.c. 221) δέομαι. . . κάσαι αὐτοὺς ἐκχωρῆσαι τῆς οἰκίας, P Amh IT. 30% (ii/B.c.) παρηγγείλαμεν τῆι Θεμβῶτος ἐκχωρεῖν ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας, and P Tebt II. 3105 (A.D. 186) ὁμολοκῶ ἐκχωρῆσε (1. ὁμολογῶ ἐκχωρῆσαι) τῷ πλήθι τῶν ἱερέων doa (1 ὅσα) ἔχω ἔτη τῆς μιᾶς ἡμίσους ἀρούρης ἱερευτικῆς, “I acknowledge that I have surrendered to the corporation of priests for my term of years the 1} arourae of temple land” (Edd.). The verb is used transitively in BGU I. 9613 (24 half iii/A.D.) ἐκκεχωρηk[éJvat αὐτοὺς αὐτὸν τῷ Μάρωνι κυριευτικῶς. Cf. ΜΟΥ ξεχωρίζω ‘‘ separate,” ‘pick out.” érravayExp0 Yo. To Hobart’s (p. 37) medical instances of this rare verb, which is confined in the NT to Lk (Ac 552°, 125), we may now add Herodas iv. 29 οὐκ ἐρεῖς αὐτήν, ἢν μὴ λάβῃ τὸ μῆλον, ἐκ τάχα ψύξει, where the tmesis gives a gasping effect that suits the sense admirably. MGr ξεψύχω.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἐκχωρέω (ekchōreō) — to go out. ἐκχωρ-έω, depart, ἐκ χώρας [Refs]; leave a country, emigrate, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; withdraw, ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας [Refs 2nd c.BC+], etc.: metaphorically, ἐ. ἐκ τοῦ ζῆν [Refs 2nd c.BC+]
2. slip out of, ἀστράγαλος ἐξεχώρησε ἐκ τῶν ἄρθρων [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3. give way, retire, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐ. τινί τινος give way to a person in a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
4. impersonal of a motion of the bowels, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. transitive, give up, cede, τινί τι [Refs 3rd c.BC+]:—passive, [Refs]