Lexical Summary
ekptuó: To spit out, to reject with disgust.
Original Word: ἐκπτύω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: ekptuó
Pronunciation: ek-ptoo'-o
Phonetic Spelling: (ek-ptoo'-o)
KJV: reject
NASB: loathe
Word Origin: [from G1537 (ἐκ - among) and G4429 (πτύω - spitting)]
1. to spit out
2. (figuratively) spurn
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
reject, loathe
From ek and ptuo; to spit out, i.e. (figuratively) spurn -- reject.
see GREEK ek
see GREEK ptuo
HELPS Word-studies
1609 ekptýō (from 1537 /ek, "wholly out," intensifying 4429 /ptýō, "spit") – properly, spit out (completely, with revulsion) because utterly distasteful, i.e. loathe (thoroughly separate from); reject vigorously, with utter disgust (used only in Gal 4:14).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
ek and
ptuóDefinitionto spit out, to spurn
NASB Translationloathe (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1609: ἐκπτύωἐκπτύω: 1 aorist
ἐξεπτυσα;
to spit out (
Homer, Odyssey 5, 322, etc.); tropically,
to reject, spurn, loathe:
τί,
Galatians 4:14, in which sense the Greeks used
καταπτύειν,
προσπτύειν,
πτύειν, and
Philo παραπτύειν; cf.
Kypke and
Loesner (or Ellicott) on Galatians, the passage cited;
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 17.
