Ekei is the ordinary Greek adverb meaning 'there, in that place,' and the New Testament uses it with striking frequency in narrative contexts. It locates the holy family's stay in Egypt ('remain there until I tell you,' Matt 2:13), marks places of gathering and teaching ('where two or three are gathered, there am I,' Matt 18:20), and fixes geographic points in the gospel narrative. Occasionally it carries a subtle directional sense — 'go there' — absorbing the function of the rarer ekeise ('thither'). Spanish 'alli/alla,' French 'la,' and German 'dort' all capture this simple deictic force. The word's theological weight emerges from context rather than semantics: it is the 'there' of divine presence, judgment, or refuge.