Strong G668ἀποφεύγω
to escape
- Transliteration
- apopheugō
- Pronunciation
- ap-of-yoo'-go
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
ἀπο-φεύγω
[in LXX: Sir.22:22 *;]
to flee from, escape: with accusative, 2Pe.2:18 2:20; with genitive, 2Pe.1:4.†
(AS)
[in LXX: Sir.22:22 *;]
to flee from, escape: with accusative, 2Pe.2:18 2:20; with genitive, 2Pe.1:4.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G668 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- escape3
First verses
- 2 Peter 1:4Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
- 2 Peter 2:18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
- 2 Peter 2:20For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀπο-φεύγω,
future -φεύξομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 39a;)] -οῦμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 932)]: perfect -πέφευγα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.9, etc.)]:—flee from, escape, c.accusative, [NT+6th c.BC+ (Batrachomyomachia 42, 47; σοφίην ὁ σοφώτατος οὐκ ἀποφεύγει 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1159; τὴν πεπρωμένην μοῖραν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.91; τὴν μάχην [prev. author] 5.102; κῆρα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1166 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 30a; νόσον 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 28.15; ἀ. ἐκ τῶν πλησίον κωμῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.9; ἐς Νίσαιαν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.114: rarely with _genitive_, ἀ. τῆς φθορᾶς NT.2Pet.1.4)]: with infinitive, auoid, λέγειν[Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Philoponus, Joannes Philosophus “in Aristotelis Physica commentaria - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 617.14)]: absolutely, get safe away, escape, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.1, 9.102, etc.)]; go free, of manumitted slaves, [Refs (“IG” 2.786, +others)]
II as law-term, ἀ. πολλὸν τοὺς διώκοντας[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.82; τινά 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.123; φεύγων ἂν ἀποφύγοι δίκην 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 167, compare 1151; γραφάς 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.1.16; εὐθύνας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 946d: with double _accusative_ _person_ et _of things_, ἀπέφυγον αὐτοὺς τὰς δίκας ἅς μοι ἐνεκάλουν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 40.19.)]
II.2 absolutely, get clear off, be acquitted, opposed to ἁλίσκομαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.174, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 35c, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.103; κἂν.. εἰσέλθῃ φεύγων οὐκ ἀποφεύγει 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 579.)]
II.3 of a woman in child-birth, bring to birth, ἀ. τὸ παιδίον ἐν τῷ τόκῳ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.25; also ἀ. τοῦ παιδίου [prev. work] 33: _intransitive_, ἢν τὰ ὕστερα μὴ δύνηται ἀποφυγεῖν [prev. author] “Nat.Mul.” 56.)]
future -φεύξομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 39a;)] -οῦμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 932)]: perfect -πέφευγα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.9, etc.)]:—flee from, escape, c.accusative, [NT+6th c.BC+ (Batrachomyomachia 42, 47; σοφίην ὁ σοφώτατος οὐκ ἀποφεύγει 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1159; τὴν πεπρωμένην μοῖραν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.91; τὴν μάχην [prev. author] 5.102; κῆρα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1166 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 30a; νόσον 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 28.15; ἀ. ἐκ τῶν πλησίον κωμῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.9; ἐς Νίσαιαν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.114: rarely with _genitive_, ἀ. τῆς φθορᾶς NT.2Pet.1.4)]: with infinitive, auoid, λέγειν[Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Philoponus, Joannes Philosophus “in Aristotelis Physica commentaria - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 617.14)]: absolutely, get safe away, escape, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.1, 9.102, etc.)]; go free, of manumitted slaves, [Refs (“IG” 2.786, +others)]
II as law-term, ἀ. πολλὸν τοὺς διώκοντας[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.82; τινά 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.123; φεύγων ἂν ἀποφύγοι δίκην 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 167, compare 1151; γραφάς 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.1.16; εὐθύνας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 946d: with double _accusative_ _person_ et _of things_, ἀπέφυγον αὐτοὺς τὰς δίκας ἅς μοι ἐνεκάλουν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 40.19.)]
II.2 absolutely, get clear off, be acquitted, opposed to ἁλίσκομαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.174, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 35c, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.103; κἂν.. εἰσέλθῃ φεύγων οὐκ ἀποφεύγει 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 579.)]
II.3 of a woman in child-birth, bring to birth, ἀ. τὸ παιδίον ἐν τῷ τόκῳ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.25; also ἀ. τοῦ παιδίου [prev. work] 33: _intransitive_, ἢν τὰ ὕστερα μὴ δύνηται ἀποφυγεῖν [prev. author] “Nat.Mul.” 56.)]