ekbolas

Strong’sG1546

a throwing out, a jettisoning

stem ekbol-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ἐκ-βολή, -ῆς

(< ἐκβάλλω), [in LXX: Ex 11:1 (גָּרַשׁ), Jos 1:5 (ἐκβολὴν ποιεῖσθαι, טול hi.), Ez 47:8 (יָצָא)*;]

1. a throwing out.

2. a jettison, a throwing overboard of cargo: Ac 27:18 (cf. Jos, l.c.; and v. Field, Notes, 144 f.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1546 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidek-bol-ay'

ejection, i.e. (specially) a throwing overboard of the cargo

Fromfrom G1544;

King James+ lighten the ship.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἐκβολ-ή, ἡ,
(ἐκβάλλω) throwing out, ψήφων ἐ. casting the votes out of the urn, Refs 4th c.BC+
2jettisoning of cargo, NT+4th c.BC+ (but simply, unloading, Refs casting out of it, getting rid of it, Refs 5th c.BC+
II expulsion, banishment, Refs 5th c.BC+; dislodgement, ejection, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.2 divorce, repudiation, γυναικός Refs 4th c.AD+
III letting fall or drop, δακρύων ἐκβολαί Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐ. [ὀδόντων] casting or shedding of teeth, Refs 4th c.BC+
IV expulsion of a foetus, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV.2 ἐ. σίτου the time when the corn comes into ear, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV.3 shoot, καυλοῦ Refs 1st c.AD+
V putting out of a joint, dislocation, ἐκβολαὶ τῶν ἄρθρων Refs 1st c.AD+
VI putting forth, exposing, μαστῶν Refs 2nd c.BC+
VII debouchure, outlet, ἐ. Πηνειοῦ Refs 5th c.BC+; mouth of a river, in plural, Refs 5th c.BC+: pass leading out of a chain of mountains, αἱ ἐκβολαὶ τοῦ Κιθαιρῶνος Refs 5th c.BC+
VII.2 by-way, ἐ. ἐκ τῆς ὁδοῦ τῆς εὐθείας Refs 2nd c.AD+digression, Refs 5th c.BC+
VII.3 close of a verse, Refs
VII.4 projection, στόματος a snout, Refs 3rd c.AD+
VIII (from passive), that which is cast out, δικέλλης ἐ. earth thrown up by a mattock, upcast, Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐρεία ἐ. children cast or exposed on the mountains, Refs 5th c.BC+
VIII.2 cargo thrown overboard, jetsam, πλὴν ἐκβολῆς, ἣν ἂν..ἐκβάλωνται Syngr. cited in Refs 4th c.BC+; so ἐκβολαὶ νεώς wrecked seamen, Refs 5th c.BC+
IX in Music, interval of five διέσεις, Refs 1st c.AD+
X ={ἐκβολάς} I, Refs 1st c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

* throwing the cargo overboard,1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	ekbolas	ekbolais
object accusative	ekbolan1×ἐκβολὴν	ekbolain
direct address vocative	ekbolar	ekbolair
of, belonging to genitive	ekbolau	ekbolaiu
to, for dative	ekbola	ekbolai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

ekbolstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

ekbola is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

ekbolan“* throwing the cargo overboard,”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 27:18“* throwing the cargo overboard,”sfodrōs de cheimazorōntoiu nu ta hexēs ekbolan poiole,We were tossed so violently that the next day the …