Greek word · G6030
ἐκπηδάω
ekpēdaō
to rush out
To leap out or spring forth. It describes sudden, energetic movement out of an enclosed place, like an animal bounding out of its lair or a person bursting out of a house.
Appears once in the Greek New Testament. ·
What it means
ἐκ-πηδάω, -ῶ
[in LXX: Deuteronomy 33:22 (זָנַק), etc. ;]
to spring forth: εἰς τ. ὄχλον (cf. Jude 1:14:17), Acts 14:14 (for ex. in π., see MM, Exp., xii).†
(AS)
From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
In depth
- Range of meaning
To leap out or spring forth. It describes sudden, energetic movement out of an enclosed place, like an animal bounding out of its lair or a person bursting out of a house.
- Against the English
'Rushed out' (BSB in effect, ESV, NIV, NASB) and 'sprang' (WEB, YLT) keep the suddenness. The KJV's 'ran in among' follows a different Greek reading, eispēdaō, 'leap in'.
- Used elsewhere in the period
Common in classical and later Greek for leaping out. It appears in the Septuagint, e.g. Deut 33:22, of Dan as a lion's cub leaping out of Bashan. This is its only appearance in the New Testament. Strong's original list had no number for it, so the supplied data uses an extended number (G6030). The Byzantine text has instead εἰσεπήδησαν (Strong's G1530), the verb Luke also uses in Acts 16:29.
Where it appears
Acts · 1
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Acts 14:14 ἐξεπήδησαν rushed out
But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul found out about this, they tore their clothes and rushed into the crowd, shouting,
Here: 'They leapt out', a sudden, almost bodily dash. The word appears only here in the New Testament. It suggests they burst out of wherever they were, perhaps a house or the gateway, and plunged into the crowd.
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