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.