Lexicon apopheugó: to flee from Original Word: ἀποφεύγωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: apopheugó Phonetic Spelling: (ap-of-yoo'-go) Short Definition: I flee from, escape Definition: I flee from, escape. HELPS word-Studies 668 apopheúgō (from 575 /apó, "away from" and 5343 /pheúgō, "flee") – properly, flee from (escape). 668 (apopheúgō) underlines the previous (undesirable) connection – hence, also the need to move on ("escaping by flight," K. Wuest). 668 (apopheúgō) then emphasizes separation – a full breaking away from the previous situation. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom apo and pheugóDefinitionto flee from NASB Translationescape (1), escaped (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 668: ἀποφεύγωἀποφεύγω (participle in 2 Peter 2:18 L T Tr WH; Winer's Grammar, 342 (321)); 2 aorist ἀπεφυγον; (from ( Homer) batrach. 42, 47 down); to flee from, escape; with the accusative, 2 Peter 2:18 (where L T wrongly put a comma after ἀποφεύγοντας ( Winers Grammar, 529 (492))), 20; with the genitive, by virtue of the preposition ( Buttmann, 158 (138); Winer's Grammar, § 52, 4, 1 c.), 2 Peter 1:4.
Strong's escape. From apo and pheugo; (figuratively) to escape -- escape. see GREEK apo see GREEK pheugo |
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