ekphero describes taking people or things outward, and in one image a land producing thorns and thistles.

The predominant use depicts people or objects being taken from a place outward: bodies are carried out, sick people are brought into the streets, a man is led out, and a robe is called for. A single figurative occurrence describes land that produces thorns and thistles.

1. Taking persons or objects outward · dominant

   In Acts 5:10, Acts 5:15, and Acts 5:9, active forms occur in clauses about moving a dead woman, sick people, and the addressed woman outward; the APB renders these clauses with “carried her out,” “carried the sick out,” and “carry you out.” Mark 8:23 places the aorist active indicative in the action involving the blind man, whom the APB says was “led ... out of the village”; Luke 15:22 has an aorist active command in the father's instruction concerning the best robe, while 1 Timothy 6:7 uses an aorist active infinitive for carrying anything out of the world.

   Acts 5:10Acts 5:15Acts 5:9Mark 8:23Luke 15:221 Timothy 6:7
2. Producing what the land bears · rare

   Hebrews 6:8 uses a present active feminine participle for land in the clause about bearing thorns and thistles. The APB renders the verse's image as land that “bears thorns and thistles.”

   Hebrews 6:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the movement contexts with phrases such as “carried her out,” “carried the sick out,” “carry you out,” and “led him out,” while Hebrews 6:8 uses “bears.” These renderings show the verse-level presentation rather than fixed English equivalents.