What does ἐξάλλομαι (exállomai) mean in the Bible?
ἐξάλλομαι (exállomai): Sudden, vigorous leaping movement expressing intense emotion or physical response.
Greek · G1814
ἐξάλλομαι
To spring forth
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ἐξάλλομαιG1814
Pronunciationexállomai
What does ἐξάλλομαι (exállomai) mean in the Bible?
ἐξάλλομαι (exállomai): Sudden, vigorous leaping movement expressing intense emotion or physical response.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G1814?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include He sprang (1).
Where does ἐξάλλομαι (exállomai) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 3:8. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders ItHe sprang1×Acts 3:8
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowActs 3:8
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Acts1
Source forms
ἐξαλλόμενος1xexallomenosActs 3:8
Parsing patterns
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Singular1xActs 3:8
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Sudden, vigorous leaping movement expressing intense emotion or physical response.
Strong'sG1814
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
to spring forth
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Sudden, vigorous leaping movement expressing intense emotion or physical response.
to leap up: Act.3:8.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Acts 3:8Verb Present Middle or Passive Deponent Participle Nominative Singular Masculine
ἐξαλλόμενοςexallomenov
I leap up
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How mood, tense, and voice shift the force of this verb in context.
This verb appears through different tense, voice, mood, or stem patterns. Those forms help readers see how the action is presented in context.
Form groups1Aligned forms1TensesPresentVoicesMiddle
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Tenses
Voices
Participleverbal adjective — the action as a modifying quality1×
Present MiddleActs 3:81×
Discourse Aspect
How this verb appears across 1 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect
Tense
present1
Voice
middle1
Mood
participle1
NT Occurrences
Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.
Clause data: MACULA Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0) · SBLGNT (Logos/SBL, CC BY 4.0)
Word Origins
ἐξάλλομαι is built from these roots: