Word Summary
apopheugō: to flee from
Original Word: ἀποφεύγωTransliteration: apopheugō
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-of-yoo'-go)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to flee from
Meaning: to flee from
Strong's Concordance
escape. 
From apo and pheugo; (figuratively) to escape -- escape. 
see GREEK apo 
see GREEK pheugo 
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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.