How to Pronounce Exodus
EHK-so-duhs
Exodus is pronounced EHK-so-duhs: three syllables, stress on the first. Also heard: EK-suh-duhs.
What does Exodus mean?
Exodus means “going out, departure”.
Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.
What is Exodus?
The great deliverance wrought for the children of Isreal when they were brought out of the land of Egypt with “a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm” (Ex 12:51; Deut. 26:8; Ps 114; 136), about B.C. 1490, and four hundred and eighty years (1 Kings 6:1) before the building of Solomon’s temple. The time of their sojourning in Egypt was, according to Ex. 12:40, the space of four hundred and thirty years.
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.
Also pronounced
EK-suh-duhs