To pour forth; figuratively, to bestow
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Ἐκχέω (ekchéō) means to pour out, spill, or shed from a container or body. Jesus describes wine spilling when new wine is placed in old skins, an ordinary physical result within His teaching about fitting forms.
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Ἐκχέω (ekchéō) means to pour out, spill, or shed from a container or body. Jesus describes wine spilling when new wine is placed in old skins, an ordinary physical result within His teaching about fitting forms.
The BSB source-word alignment has 27 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include poured out (7), is poured out (3), He poured out (2), I will pour out (2), will spill (2).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 9:17. Its strongest book concentrations include Revelation (9), Acts (6), Luke (3), Matthew (3).
This entry includes 2 verse guides that explain exact original-language forms in context.
Ἐκχέω (ekchéō) means to pour out, spill, or shed from a container or body. Jesus describes wine spilling when new wine is placed in old skins, an ordinary physical result within His teaching about fitting forms. At the final meal, His blood is poured out for the disciples as the blood of the new covenant. Paul remembers Stephen's blood being shed while he approved the killing, making the verb part of confession and culpability.
Revelation's angels pour bowls onto sea and air, releasing measured judgments that culminate in the throne's declaration, “It is done. ” The image can communicate waste, sacrificial self-giving, violent death, or judicial discharge. What is poured, by whom, for whom, and under whose authority distinguishes grace from murder and judgment from accident.
Ἐκχέω describes pouring or shedding. New wine may spill from ruined skins, Jesus' covenant blood is poured out for His people, Stephen's blood is shed violently, and Revelation's bowls are poured under divine command.
Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”
New wine poured into old skins bursts them and spills, so Jesus' concrete image stresses the need for a fitting vessel rather than careless loss of both wine and skin.
In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you.
Jesus identifies the cup with the new covenant in His blood poured out for the disciples, interpreting His approaching death as deliberate, representative self-giving.
And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was shed, I stood there giving my approval and watching over the garments of those who killed him.’
Paul confesses that Stephen's blood was shed while he approved and guarded the killers' garments, refusing to distance himself from complicity in the violence.
And the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it turned to blood like that of the dead, and every living thing in the sea died.
The second angel pours the bowl into the sea, and the resulting death belongs to Revelation's severe sequence of divine judgments on an unrepentant world.
Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came from the throne in the temple, saying, “It is done!”
The seventh bowl is poured into the air and the throne declares completion, showing the action as the appointed climax of the bowl judgments.
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Greek word. To pour out lavishly; spiritually, to bestow generously (especially divine gifts like Spirit and love)
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
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How this verb appears across 27 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
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What is poured out cannot be treated as a vague symbol. Spilled wine in Jesus' saying is a preventable loss caused by an unfitting container. At His table, poured-out blood is the deliberate language of covenant and substitution: Jesus interprets His death as being for His people before enemies shed His blood. Stephen's death reveals the opposite moral agency.
Paul later names his own approval, showing that guarding coats can participate in violence when it supports those shedding innocent blood. Revelation's bowls confront readers with divine judgment that is neither accidental nor uncontrolled; the final pouring reaches the declared completion God appointed. Teachers should hold mercy and judgment together without making them morally equivalent.
Christ freely gives Himself to establish the covenant, persecutors bear guilt for bloodshed, and the holy Creator retains authority to judge persistent rebellion.
Matt.9.17
Ἐκχέω is a compound verb for pouring out or shedding. A direct object names the liquid or figurative content, while a prepositional phrase marks recipient or destination. Passive forms can describe blood being shed.
Drink offerings are poured, innocent blood is condemned, the servant pours out His life, and prophets promise God's Spirit poured on His people. Each use is governed by its object and covenant setting.
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