# ἐκ or ἐξ/ ek or ex
This word connects two groups of words together and describes how they relate to one another. It is a preposition.

* This word can mean from, away from, or out of.
* This word can mean because. This word is used to talk about the cause or reason for something happening.

**Advice to translators**: This word is spelled ἐκ. However, When it used before a word beginning with a vowel it is spelled ἐξ.