377c

λοχ-εῖος, α, ον, and ος, ον,

A = λόχιος (q.v.), λοχείους ἡμέρας days of thanks for safe delivery, Plu.2.377c;

θυέτωσαν.. αἱ τὰ λ. ἐκπορευόμεναι καὶ ζωννύμεναι Milet.1(7).204b9

; λοχεῖα (sc. χωρία) λιποῦσα having left the place where she bore the child, E.IT 1241 (lyr.); cf. λοχαῖος: Subst. λοχεῖα, τά, = λοχεία 1, Hp. Mul.1.29, Ruf. ap. Orib.5.3.16.

2 Λοχεία, ἡ, title of Artemis, = Λοχία, IG9(2).141, 142 (Theb. Phthiot.), Orph.H.36.3, etc.

πλάσσω, [dialect] Att. [suff] πλασμᾰτ-ττω S.Aj. 148 (anap.), Pl.R. 420c, etc.: [tense] fut. πλάσω ( ἀνα-) Hp.Mochl.2:[tense] aor.

A

ἔπλᾰσα Hdt.2.70

([etym.] κατ-), Ar.V. 926, etc.; poet.

ἔπλασσα Theoc.24.109

; [dialect] Ep.

πλάσσα Hes.Op.70

: [tense] pf.

πέπλᾰκα Phld. Mus.p.85K.

,D.S.15.11, D.H.Th.41: [ per.] 3sg.[tense] plpf.

ἐπεπλάκει Erot.Praef.

: —[voice] Med., [tense] fut.

πλάσομαι Alciphr.1.37

: [tense] aor.

ἐπλασάμην Th.6.58

, Pl.Lg. 800b, etc.:—[voice] Pass., [tense] fut.

πλασθήσομαι Phld.Mus.p.82

K., ( δια- ) Gal.4.619: [tense] aor.

ἐπλάσθην E.Fr. 1130

, Lys.12.48, Pl.Ti. 26e : [tense] pf.

πέπλασμαι A.Pr. 1030

, etc.:—form, mould, prop. of the artist who works in soft substances, such as earth, clay, wax, ἐκ γαίης π. Hes.Op.70, cf. Hdt. 2.47,73; of Prometheus,

ὃν λέγουσ' ἡμᾶς πλάσαι καὶ τἄλλα.. ζῷα Philem.89.1

, cf. Men.535.5 ;

π. καθάπερ ἐκ κηροῦ Pl.Lg. 746a

;

σχήματα ἐκ χρυσοῦ Id.Ti. 50a

;

ἐκ πηλοῦ ζῷον Arist.PA 654b29

;

ἀγγεῖον π. κήρινον Id.Mete. 359a1

;

οὐκ ἔστιν ἀνδριαντοποιὸς ὅστις ἂν πλάσαι κάλλος τοιοῦτον Philem.72.2

;

τοὺς πηλίνους D.4.26

; opp. γράφειν, as sculpture to painting, Pl.R. 510e (so in [voice] Pass., Lg. 668e, Isoc.9.75); τὴν ὑδριαν πλάσαι mould the water-jar, Ar.V. 926 ;

σώματα π. θνητά Pl.Ti. 42d

; π. κηρία, of bees, Arist.HA 623b32 ; ἔπλαττεν ἔνδον οἰκίας made clay houses, Ar.Nu. 879; knead bread, Gal.6.313:—[voice] Med., σχῆμα πλασάμενος having formed oneself a figure, Pl.Plt. 297e :— [voice] Pass., to be moulded, made,

τὸ δὲ ἐν τῇσι μήτρῃσι πλάσσεται Hdt.3.108

;

οἶκος τεκτόνων πλασθεὶς ὕπο E.Fr. 1130

;

ἂν ἴδωσι.. κήρινα μιμήματα πεπλασμένα Pl.Lg. 933b

.

2 plaster,

τὸν.. ναὸν χρίσαντες καὶ πλάσαντες BCH15.209

([place name] Panamara).

II generally, mould, form by education, training, etc., π. τὰς ψυχὰς τοῖς μύθοις, τὰ σώματα ταῖς χερσίν, Pl.R. 377c ;

σῶμα ἐπιμελῶς Id.Ti. 88c

;

ἑαυτόν Id.R. 500d

; παιδεύειν τε καὶ π. Id.Lg. 671c:—[voice] Pass.,

τοὔνομ' ἀνὰ χρόνον πεπλασμένον E. Ion 830

; of the voice, to be trained, Arist.HA 536b19.

III form an image of a thing in the mind, imagine,

πλάττομεν οὔτε ἰδόντες οὔτε.. νοήσαντες ἀθάνατόν τι ζῷον Pl.Phdr. 246c

, cf. R. 420c, 466a ;

τῷ λόγῳ τοὺς νόμους Id.Lg. 712b

;

τἀρχαῖα Phld.Mus.p.85K.

:—[voice] Pass., ib.p.82 K.

IV put in a certain form, τὸ στόμα π. (so as to pronounce more elegantly) Pl.Cra. 414d ; [ κόμιον] Arr.Epict.2.24.24;

τὴν ὑπόκρισιν Plu.Dem.7

:—[voice] Med., ἀδήλως τῇ ὄψει πλυσάμενος πρὸς τὴν ξυμφοράν having formed himself in face, i.e. composed his countenance, Th.6.58, cf. D.45.68.

V metaph., fabricate, forge,

λόγους ψιθύρους πλάσσων S.Aj. 148

(anap.);

ψευδεῖς π. αἰτίας Isoc.12.25

;

προφάσεις D.25.28

; τί λόγους πλάττεις; Id.18.121, cf. Pl.Ap. 17c ;

μὴ πλάσῃς κακόν Men.Mon. 145

;

π. ἐπιστολήν Plb.5.42.7

: abs., δόξω πλάσας λέγειν I shall be thought to speak from invention, i.e. not the truth, Hdt.8.80, cf. X.Mem.2.6.37 :—[voice] Med.,

πλάσασθαι τὸν τρόπον τὸν αὑτοῦ Lys.19.60

;

ψεύδη X.An.2.6.26

;

τῆς φιλανθρωπίας ἣν.. ἐπλάττετο D.18.231

; προφάσεις π. Id.19.215 ;

τοιαῦτα πλάττεσθαι τολμᾶτε Id.28.9

;

καιρὸν πλάττεσθαι Id.21.187

: abs., πλαττομένους πρὸς ἑαυτούς ( αὐτούς Bonitz) Arist.Rh. 1381b28 : c. inf., Νέρων εἶναι πλασάμενος pretending to be N., D.C.64.9;

π. νοσεῖν Gal.19.1

:—[voice] Pass., οὐ πεπλασμένος ὁ κόμπος not fictitious, A.Pr. 1030 ; πεπλάσθαι φάσκοντες saying it was a forgery, Is.7.2 ;

μὴ πλασθέντα μῦθον ἀλλ' ἀληθινὸν λόγον Pl. Ti. 26e

;

π. ὑπὸ ποιητῶν And.4.23

;

ἐξ ὧν ἡ δίκη αὕτη πέπλασται D.52.12

. ( πλαθ-Ψω, cf. κορο-πλάθος, πηλο-πλάθος.)

προανθ-έω,

A flower before its season, Thphr.CP1.10.2, Ph.1.602, Plu. 2.377c.

2 flower before leaves appear, Thphr.HP7.13.7.

προβλαστ-άνω,

A shoot or sprout before, Thphr.CP5.1.12, Ph.1.602;

π. πρότερον τῶν λοιπῶν Thphr.CP1.13.12

; shoot before the season, Plu.2.377c.

ἀπο-κρῐτέον,

A one must reject, opp. ἐγκριτέον, Pl.R. 377c, 413d, cf. Lib.Or.25.53.

II one must answer, Pl.Prt. 351d, Alc.1.114e, etc.

ἐκ-βλητέον, ([etym.] ἐκβάλλω)

A one must reject,

μύθους Pl.R. 377c

; one must get rid of, Orib.Fr.130.

2 Medic., ἐ. διαιρέσεις one must make incisions, Antyll. ap. Aët.7.74.

πλάσσω 1 aor. ἔπλασα; pf. ptc. πεπλακώς. Pass.: 1 aor. ἐπλάσθην; pf. ptc. neut. πεπλασμένον LXX (s. two prec. entries; Hes. et al.; ins [e.g. IAndrosIsis 94]; pap, LXX; pseudepigr.; Philo; Jos., C. Ap. 1, 293; apolog. [Tat. 1, 1 πλάττειν])

① to manufacture someth. by molding a soft substance, form, mold

ⓐ of the manufacture of certain objects Ro 9:20 (s. πλάσμα); Dg 2:3.

ⓑ esp. of God’s creative activity in forming humankind (cp. Semonides of Amorgos 7, 21 of a woman as obj. πλάσαντες γηίνην Ὀλύμπιοι; Babrius 66, 2f πλάσσασθαι ἄνθρωπον ἐκ γῆς. Cp. Cornutus 18 p. 31, 20.—Artem. 3, 17 it is said of Prometheus πλ. τοὺς ἀνθρώπους).

α. of the first parents, Adam and Eve (Gen 2:7f, 15; cp. 2 Macc 7:23; TestAbr B 8 p. 113, 4 [Stone p. 74]; Philo, Op. M. 137; Jos., Ant. 1, 32; SibOr 3, 24; Just., D. 19, 3 al.) ἄνθρωπον ταῖς ἱεραῖς χερσὶν ἔπλασεν (God) formed humankind with holy hands 1 Cl 33:4 (ἄρσεν καὶ θήλυ vs. 5). Pass. 1 Ti 2:13 ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’.

β. of humans in gener., w. the first parents in mind: οὓς (i.e. the humans) ἐκ τῆς ἰδίας εἰκόνος ἔπλασεν whom (God) formed in his own image Dg 10:2 (Himerius, Or. 64 [=Or. 18], 4 πλ. of forming of figures by a sculptor).

γ. of humankind gener., with no special ref. to Adam and Eve (oft. LXX; ApcEsdr 3:9 p. 27, 17 Tdf.; Ath. 31, 3) 1 Cl 38:3; B 19:2; AcPlCor 2:7. Specif. the human heart was formed by God B 2:10 (cp. Ps 32:15).

② to direct personal character or cultural formation, shape, in fig. ext. of 1: formation of mental things, in the difficult pass. δεῖξαι αὐτῷ φῶς καὶ πλάσαι τῇ συνέσει show him light and shape him with understanding (?) 1 Cl 16:12 (Is 53:11 LXX, without support in the orig. text as handed down to us.—For the figurative meaning cp. Pla., Rep. 377c πλάττειν τὰς ψυχάς [through education], Leg. 671c παιδεύειν καὶ πλάττειν; Theocr. 7, 44).—B. 617. DELG. M-M. TW.

πρεσβύτερος, α, ον (Hom.+; comp. of πρέσβυς)

① pert. to being relatively advanced in age, older, old

ⓐ of an individual person older of two ὁ υἱὸς ὁ πρ. (cp. Aelian, VH 9, 42; TestJob 15:2 τῷ ἀδελφῷ τῷ πρεσβυτέρῳ; JosAs; Just., A II, 6, 1) Lk 15:25; of Manasseh (w. Ephraim) B 13:5. In contrast to the younger generation οἱ πρεσβύτεροι the older ones J 8:9. Opp. οἱ νεανίσκοι Ac 2:17 (Jo 3:1). Opp. νεώτεροι (s. νεός 3aβ) 1 Ti 5:1 (similar advice, containing a contrast betw. πρ. and νεώτ., from ins and lit. in MDibelius, Hdb. ad loc.); 1 Pt 5:5 (though here the πρεσβύτεροι are not only the older people, but at the same time, the ‘elders’; s. 2bβ). The same double mng. is found for πρεσβύτεροι in 1 Cl 1:3 beside νέοι, while in 3:3; 21:6, beside the same word, the concept of being old is the dominant one (as Jos., C. Ap. 2, 206). On the disputed pass. Hv 3, 1, 8 (οἱ νεανίσκοι … οἱ πρεσβύτεροι) cp. MDibelius, Hdb. ad loc.—Fem. πρεσβυτέρα old(er) woman (opp. νεωτέρα, as Gen 19:31) 1 Ti 5:2.—With no ref. to younger persons, w. complete disappearance of the comparative aspect: πρεσβύτερος an old man (Jos., Ant. 13, 226; 292 [as a witness of events in the past, as Ps.-Pla., Virt. 3, 377b; 4, 377c]) Hv 3, 12, 2; cp. 3, 11, 3. The personified church is called λίαν πρεσβυτέρα very old 3, 10, 3; cp. 3, 11, 2. She appears as ἡ πρ. the elderly woman 2, 1, 3; 3, 1, 2; 3, 10, 6; 9 and has τὰς τρίχας πρεσβυτέρας the hair of an old woman 3, 10, 4; 5; 3, 12, 1.

ⓑ of a period of time (Petosiris, Fgm. 3 and 4 mention οἱ πρεσβύτεροι and οἱ νεώτεροι. In both instances the context shows that the reference is to astrologers from earlier and more recent times) οἱ πρεσβύτεροι the men of old, our ancestors Hb 11:2. ἡ παράδοσις τῶν πρεσβυτέρων the tradition of the ancients (cp. Iambl., Vi. Pyth. 35, 253 τῶν π. συγγράμματα) Mt 15:2; Mk 7:3, 5 (ELohse, D. Ordination im Spätjudentum u. NT, ’51, 50–56: scholars).

② an official (cp. Lat. senator), elder, presbyter

ⓐ among the Jews (the congregation of a synagogue in Jerusalem used πρεσβύτεροι to denote its officers before 70 A.D.: SEG VIII, 170, 9; cp. Dssm., LO 378–80 [LAE 439–41]).

α. for members of local councils in individual cities (cp. Josh 20:4; Ruth 4:2; 2 Esdr 10:14; Jdth 8:10; 10:6) Lk 7:3; 1 Cl 55:4.—Schürer II, 185.

β. for members of a group in the Sanhedrin (Schürer II, 206–8; JJeremias, Jerusalem z. Zt. Jesu II B 1: Die gesellschaftl. Oberschicht 1929, 88ff). They are mentioned together w. (the) other groups: ἀρχιερεῖς (Ac 4:5 has ἄρχοντες for this), γραμματεῖς, πρεσβύτεροι (the order is not always the same) Mt 16:21; 26:3 v.l.; 27:41; Mk 8:31; 11:27; 14:43, 53; 15:1; Lk 9:22; 20:1.—Only ἀρχιερεῖς (Ac 4:8 has for this ἄρχοντες τοῦ λαοῦ) and πρεσβύτεροι (τοῦ λαοῦ: cp. Ex 19:7; Num 11:16b, 24; 1 Macc 7:33; 12:35; Just., D. 40, 4 al.) Mt 21:23; 26:3, 47, 59 v.l.; 27:1, 3, 12, 20; 28:(11), 12; Lk 22:52 (here, as an exception, οἱ στρατηγοὶ τοῦ ἱεροῦ); Ac 4:23; 23:14; 25:15; cp. 24:1. Also οἱ πρεσβύτεροι καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖς GPt 7:25 (for this combination cp. Jos., Ant. 11, 83; 12, 406).—Only πρεσβύτεροι and γραμματεῖς Mt 26:57; Ac 6:12.—The use of πρεσβύτερος as a title among the Jews of the Diaspora appears quite late, except for the allusions in the LXX (cp. Schürer III/1, 102; MAMA III [Cilicia], 344; 448 [cp. ZNW 31, ’32, 313f]. Whether πρεσβύτερος is to be understood in the older Roman inscriptions [CIJ 378] as a title [so CIJ p. lxxxvi], remains doubtful).

ⓑ among the Christians (for their use of the word as a title one must bear in mind not only the Jewish custom, but also its use as a t.t. among the ἔθνη, in connection w. associations of the ‘old ones’ [FPoland, Geschichte des griech. Vereinswesens 1909, 98ff] and to designate civic as well as religious officials [Dssm., B 153ff=BS 154–57, NB 60ff=BS 233–35, also LO 315, 5; HHausschildt, ZNW 4, 1903, 235ff; MStrack, ibid. 213ff; HLietzmann, ZWT 55, 1914, 116–32 [=Kl. Schr. I ’58, 156–69]; MDibelius, exc. on 1 Ti 5:17ff; RAlastair-Campbell, The Elders, Seniority within Earliest Christianity ’94.].—BGU 16, 6 [159 A.D.] πρεσβύτεροι ἱερεῖς θεοῦ Σοκνοπαίου; 347, 6; PVindBosw 1, 31 [87 A.D.].—As honorary title: Iren. 4, 26, 5 [Harv. II 238, 3]. The Engl. word ‘priest’ comes fr. πρεσβύτερος via Lat. presbyter; later Christian usage is largely, if not entirely, responsible for this development; s. OED s.v. ‘priest’ B).

α. Ac 11:30; 14:23; 15:2, 4, 6, 22f; 16:4 (in all the places in Ac 15 and 16 mention is made of οἱ ἀπόστολοι καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι in the Jerusalem church); 20:17; 21:18; 1 Ti 5:17, 19 (Nicol. Dam.: 90 Fgm. 103a Jac. νεωτέρῳ πρεσβυτέρου καταμαρτυρεῖν οὐκ ἔξεστι); Tit 1:5; Js 5:14; 1 Pt 5:1, 5 (s. 1a above); 1 Cl 44:5; 47:6; 54:2; 57:1. WWrede, Untersuchungen zum 1 Cl 1891, 8ff.—Acc. to 2 Cl 17:3, 5 exhortation and preaching in the church services were among their duties.—In Ign. the πρεσβύτεροι come after the bishop, to whom they are subordinate IMg 2; 3:1; 6:1, or betw. the bishop and the deacons IPhld inscr.; 10:2; IPol 6:1, or the higher rank of the bishop in comparison to them is made plain in some other way ITr 3:1; 12:2 (s. πρεσβυτέριον b; cp. Hippol., Ref. 9, 12, 22).—Polycarp—an ἐπίσκοπος, accord. to the title of the Ep. bearing his name—groups himself w. πρεσβύτεροι in Pol inscr., and further takes the presence of presbyters in Philippi for granted (beside deacons, though no ἐπίσκοπος is mentioned; cp. Hdb. on Pol inscr.) Pol 5:3.

β. Just how we are to understand the words ὁ πρεσβύτερος, applied to himself by the author of the two smallest Johannine letters 2J 1; 3J 1, remains in doubt. But in any case it is meant to indicate a position of great dignity the elder.—HWindisch, exc. on 3J, end; ESchwartz, Über den Tod der Söhne Zebedaei 1904, 47; 51; HWendt, ZNW 23, 1924, 19; EKäsemann, ZTK 48, ’51, 292–311; DWatson, NTS 35, ’89, 104–30, rhetorical analysis of 2J.—ὁ πρ. and οἱ πρ. are mentioned by Papias in these much-discussed passages: 2:3, 4, 5, 7, 14, 15. For some of the lit. s. the note on JKleist’s transl. ’48, p. 207 n. 18.

γ. In Rv there are 24 elders sitting on thrones about the throne of God; they form a heavenly council of elders (cp. Is 24:23) 4:4, 10; 5:5–14; 7:11, 13; 11:16; 14:3; 19:4. The elders have been understood as glorified human beings of some kind or astral deities (or angels) (for the var. views s. RCharles, ICC Rv I 128–33; JMichl, D. 24 Ältesten in d. Apk. d. hl. J. ’38); the number 24 has been referred to the following: the 24 priestly classes of the Jews (1 Ch 24:7–18; Jos., Ant. 7, 365–67) whose heads were called ‘elders’ (Yoma 1, 5; Tamid 1, 1; Middoth 1, 8); the 24 stars which, according to Babylonian belief, stood half on the north and half on the south of the zodiac (Diod S 2, 31, 4; POsl 4, 19: HGunkel, Z. religionsgesch. Verständnis des NT 1903, 42f; Boll 35f); the 24 hours of the day, represented as old men w. shining garments and w. crowns (acc. to the Test. of Adam [ed. CBezold, TNöldeke Festschr. 1906, 893–912]: JWellhausen, Analyse der Offb. Joh. 1907, p. 9, 1; NMorosof, Offb. Joh. 1912, 32); the 24 Yazatas in the state of the gods in heaven, acc. to Persian thought (Bousset). It is certainly an open question whether, or how far, the writer of Rv had any of these things in mind.—On the presbyters, and esp. on the question how ἐπίσκοπος and πρεσβύτερος were originally related to each other (a question which is raised particularly in the pastorals; cp. MDibelius, Hdb. exc. after 1 Ti 3:7 section 2 [w. lit.] and before 5:17), s. the lit. s.v. ἐπίσκοπος.—BEaston, Pastoral Epistles ’47, 188–97; WMichaelis, Das Ältestenamt ’53; GBornkamm, πρεσβύτερος; RCampbell, The Elders ’94.—B. 1472. DELG s.v. πρέσβυς. M-M. EDNT. TW.

προελπίζω pf. προήλπικα (Posidippus Com. [III B.C.], Fgm. 27, 8 Kock [in Athen. 9, 377c]; Simplicius, In Epict. p. 29, 51) to be prior in hoping, hope before, be the first to hope ἐν τῷ Χριστῷ Eph 1:12 (in such case πρ. is to be understood syntagmatically: hope is prior to realization [cp. giving, προδιδόναι, as prior to recompense, ἀνταπαδοῦναι, Ro 11:35]; if ἡμεῖς here refers to Jewish Christians, as most scholars [fr. Chrysostom to MDibelius² 1927; this interpr. opposed by EPercy, D. Probleme der Kolosser u. Epheserbriefe, ’46, 266f] prefer to take it, then προ would suggest ‘before the Gentiles’ or even ‘before Christ appeared’. If the ἡμεῖς are the Christians as a whole [EHaupt; PEwald; Meinertz; HRendtorff; HGreeven in Dibelius³ ’53], then προ looks forward to the fulfillment of the hope in the future).—DELG s.v. ἔλπομαι. TW.

ἐκβάλλω fut. ἐκβαλῶ; 2 aor. ἐξέβαλον; plpf. ἐκβεβλήκειν Mk 16:9. Pass.: 1 fut. ἐκβληθήσομαι; aor. ἐξεβλήθην; pf. 3 sg. ἐκβέβληται (Just.), ptc. ἐκβεβλημένος (Hom.+) gener. ‘to throw out’, then

① force to leave, drive out, expel, τινά (SIG 1109, 95; PTebt 105, 31; Gen 3:24 al.; Jos., Bell. 1, 31, Ant. 1, 58) Mt 21:12 (Chariton 3, 2, 12 πάντας ἐ. fr. the temple of Aphrodite; Lysimachus: 621 Fgm. 1, 306 Jac. [in Jos., C. Ap. 1, 306] God demands that the Egyptian king ἐκβάλλειν ἐκ τῶν ἱερῶν those who are unclean; CRoth, Cleansing of the Temple and Zech 14:21: NovTest 4, ’60, 174–81; for lit. on Jesus’ action s. DSeeley, CBQ 55, ’93, 263 n. 1); Mk 1:12 is perh. to be understood in this sense, cp. Gen 3:24, but s. 2 below; Mk 5:40; 11:15; Lk 19:45; 20:12. Pass. Mt 9:25; Hs 1, 4; 9, 14, 2. τινὰ or τὶ ἔκ τινος (Dio Chrys. 49 [66], 3; SIG 317, 12; PLond III, 887, 6 p. 1 [III B.C.]; PMagd 12, 11=PEnteux 54, 11; Ex 6:1; Num 22:6 al.; Philo, Cher. 10) J 2:15; Hs 8, 7, 5. ἀπό τινος (Ex 23:31; Num 22:11; 2 Ch 11:16; Philo, Det. Pot. Ins. 163; Jos., Ant. 13, 352; Just., D. 92, 2 ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰερουσαλήμ) Ac 13:50. ἔξω τινός out of someth. (Lev 14:40; 1 Macc 13:47 v.l.): a city (Hyperid. 5:31) Lk 4:29; Ac 7:58; cp. Hs 1:6; ἐ. ἔξω (without amplification as 2 Ch 29:16) J 6:37; 9:34f (s. below); Ac 9:40. Pass. Lk 13:28; J 12:31 (βάλλω P⁶⁶ et al.). W. the destination given ἐ. εἴς τι drive someone out into someth. (Dt 29:27; 2 Ch 29:16; Jer 22:28; Mel., P. 48): into the darkness outside (cp. En 10:4) Mt 8:12; 22:13; 25:30.—From a vineyard Mt 21:39; Mk 12:8; Lk 20:15; in these three passages throw out, toss out is prob. meant.—Mid., throw someth. overboard to save oneself: Ac 27:38 grain (the act. in this sense Diod S 3, 40, 5; τὰ ὑπάρχοντα En 101:5; Jos., Bell. 1, 280).—Used esp. of the expulsion of spirits who have taken possession of a pers. (Jos., Ant. 6, 211; Just. A II, 10, 6 δαίμονας … ἐκβαλὼν τῆς πολιτείας; PGM 4, 1227 πρᾶξις γενναία ἐκβάλλουσα δαίμονας; 1252; 1254) Mt 8:31; 9:33f; 10:1, 8; 12:26; 17:19; Mk 1:34, 39, 43; 3:15, 23; 6:13; 7:26 (ἔκ τινος); 9:18, 28; 16:9 (παρά τινος); Lk 9:40; 11:14; 13:32. W. the means given (Lucian-Epigr. in Anth. Pal. 11, 427 δαίμονα ἐ. δυνάμει) τῷ σῷ ὀνόματι by your name Mt 7:22. λόγῳ with a word 8:16. For this ἔν τινι by someone or someth. by the ruler of the evil spirits 9:34; Mk 3:22; by Beelzebul Mt 12:24, 27; Lk 11:15, 18f; by the name of Jesus Mk 9:38; 16:17; Lk 9:49; by the finger of God Lk 11:20; cp. vs. 19; ἐν πνεύματι θεοῦ Mt 12:28.—GSterling, Jesus as Exorcist: CBQ 55, ’93, 467–93.— Expel someone fr. a group, repudiate someone (Pherecyd. 83 Zeus expels insolent deities) a servant girl Gal 4:30 (Gen 21:10); a wife (Demosth. 59, 63; 83; Diod S 12, 18, 1; BGU 1050, 15; PGiss 2, 23; Lev 21:7; Pr 18:22a; Sir 7:26; Jos., Ant. 16, 215; 17, 78) Agr 18; ἐκ τ. ἐκκλησίας ἐ. 3J 10 (cp. POxy 104, 17; Jos., Bell. 2, 143). Vss. J 9:34f, referred to above, prob. belong here too, since the Johannine love of multiple meaning has combined the mngs. drive out of the audience-room and expel from the synagogue.—Idiom: λόγους ἐ. εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω cast words behind oneself=pay no attention to them 1 Cl 35:8 (Ps 49:17); ἐ. τὸ ὄνομα disdain, spurn the name Lk 6:22 (cp. Pla., Crito 46b and Rep. 2, 377c; Soph., Oed. Col. 636; 646); difft., Wlh. ad loc.; s. Black, An Aramaic Approach³, ’67, 135f, w. special ref. to Dt 22:14, 19.

② to cause to go or remove from a position (without force), send out/away, release, bring out (PRyl 80, 1 [I A.D.] ἐκβάλετε … ὑδροφύλακας; 1 Macc 12:27) workers Mt 9:38; Lk 10:2 (cp. PMich 618, 15f [II A.D.]); send away Js 2:25; release Ac 16:37; lead out (Μαρτύριον τῆς ἁγ. Αἰκατερίνας 18 p. 17 Viteau: ἐκέλευσεν ὁ βας. ἐκβληθῆναι αὐτὴν ἐκ τ. φυλακῆς; Theophanes, Chron. 388, 28) Mk 1:12 (but s. 1 above); bring out of sheep J 10:4 (cp. Hs 6, 2, 6; Longus 3, 33, 2 προσέβαλλε ταῖς μητράσι τοὺς ἄρνας; BGU 597, 4 ἵνα βάλῃ τὸν μόσχον πρὸ τ. προβάτων).

③ to cause someth. to be removed from someth., take out, remove (1 Macc 13:48; Diosc. 1, 50; s. Rydbeck 155–58; 184) a beam or splinter ἐκ τ. ὀφθαλμοῦ Mt 7:4f; Lk 6:42; Ox 1 verso, 2 (ASyn. 68, 44) (cp. GTh 26; Aesop. p. 28 Ursing ἐκβάλλεις ἄκανθα[ν] ἐκ ποδῶν μου); bring out τὶ someth. (Horapollo 2, 105; TestAbr A 6, p. 83, 23 [Stone p. 14] ἐκ τοῦ κόλπου ‘[pearls] out of the purse’) ἐκ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ θησαυροῦ ἐ. τὰ ἀγαθά out of the good treasure (=the tr. of the good) that which is good Mt 12:35; 13:52; take out a sum of money Lk 10:35. Of an eye, tear out and throw away Mk 9:47 (Syntipas p. 101, 2; cp. La 3:16 ἐ. ὀδόντας). Of material in the body (Ps.-Plut., Hom. 205; schol. on Nicander, Alexiph. 485; cp. Ps.-Aristot., Mirabilia 6 οἱ κυνηγοὶ εἰς ἀγγεῖον αὐτὴν [=τὴν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου κόπρον] ἐμβάλοντες=the hunters let their excrement fall into a pot.—ἐκβ. τι=let someth. fall Diog. L. 6, 35) evacuate Mt 15:17.

④ to pay no attention to, disregard τὴν αὐλὴν τὴν ἔξωθεν τοῦ ναοῦ ἔκβαλε ἔξωθεν leave out (of consideration) the outer court of the temple Rv 11:2 (Epicurus in Diog. L. 10, 147 ἐ. τι=disregard someth.; M. Ant. 12, 25 βάλε ἔξω τὴν ὑπόληψιν=do not concern yourself about … ; Mitt-Wilck. II/2, 372 VI, 22f [II A.D.] τὸ ἀναγνωσθὲν δάνειον ἐκβάλλω=I pass over, omit. On the belief of Jerusalem’s inhabitants that the temple could be saved, while the beleagured city was ruined, s. Jos., Bell. 5, 459).

⑤ to bring someth. about, cause to happen, bring ἐ. εἰς νῖκος τὴν κρίσιν lead justice on to victory Mt 12:20 (s. κρίσις 3).—B. 713. M-M. TW.