Expel
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Joshua 23:5
- Last Reference: Judges 11:7
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
EXPEL', verb transitive [Latin expello; ex and pello, to drive; from the Latin participle.]
1. To drive or force out from any inclosed place; as, to expel wind from the stomach, or air from a bellows. [The word is applicable to any force, physical or moral.]
2. To drive out; to force to leave; as, to expel the inhabitants of a country; to expel wild beasts from a forest.
3. To eject; to throw out.
4. To banish; to exile.
5. To reject; to refuse. [Little used.]
And would you not poor fellowship expel?
6. To exclude; to keep out or off.
7. In college government, to command to leave; to dissolve the connection of a student; to interdict him from further connection.
EXPEL'LABLE, adjective That may be expelled or driven out.
Acid expellable by heat.
EXPEL'LED, participle present tense Driven out or away; forced to leave; banished; exiled; excluded.
EXPEL'LER, noun He or that which drives out or away.
EXPEL'LING, participle present tense Driving out; forcing away; compelling to quit or depart; banishing; excluding.