Strong G5437φυγή

flight

Transliteration
phugē
Pronunciation
foog-ay'
Morphology
Greek Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From G5343; a fleeing that is escape: - flight.

Detailed definition

φυγή, -ῆς, ἡ
(φεύγω), [in LXX chiefly for מָנוֹס and cogn. forms;]
flight: Mat.24:20.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G5437 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • flight2

First verses

  1. Matthew 24:20
    But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
  2. Mark 13:18
    And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
φῠγή, ἡ,
(φεύγω) flight in battle, ἀΐξαντε φυγῇ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.117; οὐδέ τις ἀλκὴ.. οὐδὲ φ. 22.306; ἐς φ. ἐτράποντο 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.89)]; ἐς φ. ὁρμᾶσθαι, ὁρμᾶν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 143, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.28)]; φυγὴν αἱρεῖσθαι, ἀρεῖσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 481 (sed to be read αἴρονται), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 54; ἰσχυρὰν τὴν φ. τοῖς πολεμίοις.. ἐποίει 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.22; ἰσχυρὰ φ. ἐγένετο [prev. work] 7.1.26)]; generally, flight, [NT (NT.Matt.24.20)]; φ. ἑλέσθαι take to flight, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (PGnom. 102 (2nd c.AD): _dative_ φυγῇ,)] used adverbially, in hasty flight, φυγᾷ πόδα νωμᾶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 468 (Lyric poetry); φυγᾷ ποδὶ ἴχνος ἔφερε 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1468 (Lyric poetry); φ. ἐξαλύξωμεν ποδί [prev. author] “El.” 218, compare “Ba.” 437, “Hec.” 1066 (Lyric poetry))]; φεύγειν φ., φ. ἀναχωρεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 195b, 221a; φ. φευκτέον 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Ind.” 16: _plural_, ἐν ταῖς φυγαῖς,)] of the flight of the country people of Attica into the city, in the Pelop. war, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 243; φεύγουσί τινας οὐκ αἰσχρὰς φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 706c.)]
2 flight or escape from a thing, avoidance of it, with genitive, γάμον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 395 (Lyric poetry); νόσων ἀμηχάνων φυγὰς ξυμπέφρασται 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 364 (Lyric poetry), compare “OC” 280; λέκτρων φυγαί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 799; ἀγαθῶν φυγάς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 69d; τῶν σιτίων 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.180)]; opposed to αἵρεσις, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 3p.62U., +others, compare 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.87; τὰς ὀρθὰς αἱρέσεις καὶ φ. 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Herc.” 1251.11)]; opposed to δίωξις, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Sententiae” 25.)]
3 place of refuge, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.78.)]
4 slipping of a bandage, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “κατ᾽ ἰητρεῖον” 9.)]
II banishment, exile, νῦν μὲν δικάζεις ἐκ πόλεως φυγὴν ἐμοί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1412, compare “Ch.” 254; ἐκ γῆς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 659, etc.; ἐνιαυσία ἔκδημος φ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 37; τῆς φυγῆς ἧς αὐτοὶ ἔφυγον 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.74)]; συμφυγεῖν τὴν φ. ταύτην (i.e. ὑμῖν) to go into banishment with.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 21a)]; φυγὴν ἐπιβαλὼν ἑωυτῷ imposing banishment on oneself [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.3; φυγῇ ζημιοῦν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 900, compare “IG” 12.39.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 516d; φυγὴν καταγνῶναί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.106, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 14.38)]; φυγῆς τιμήσασθαι (i.e. δίκην) the penalty of exile, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 37c, compare “Cri.” 52c)]; ἐπὶ φόνῳ.. φ. Decrees cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.78 (uncertain reading); τῆς πατρίδος φ. ποιήσασθαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 3.42)]; εὐθύνας.. εἶναι.. πλὴν φυγῆς καὶ θανάτου καὶ ἀτιμίας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” [prev. cited] 73: _plural_, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1043, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 325b, etc.; φυγὰς ἐμὰς χθονός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 400; φυγαὶ καὶ διώξεις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 638a.)]
II.2 as a collective Noun, ={φυγάδες}, body of exiles or refugees, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 74 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.64, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.143)]; κατάγειν τὴν φυγήν to recall them, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.2.9; _plural_, συλλέξαι τὰς φυγάς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 682e, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Flamininus” 12.)]