φεύγω (feύgō) — to run away / to flee / flight

Notes: It is possible that ἐκφεύγω[b] and ἀποφεύγω differ somewhat in meaning from φεύγω[b] and from each other, but it is not possible to determine from existing contexts what the distinctive features might be, except perhaps to indicate that ἐκφεύγω[b] and ἀποφεύγω may be connotatively somewhat more emphatic than φεύγω[b]. Note, also, that in this series of terms meaning to escape, there is no special indication of movement, but simply the fact of not having to experience some particular difficulty or danger.

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Inflections: φεύγω; aor.; ἔφυγον; φεύγω; inf.; φυγεῖν

Related lemmas: ἀποφεύγω · διαφεύγω · ἐκφεύγω · καταφεύγω · φυγή

Sense 1: to run away, to flee, flight

Semantic entry: 15.61

Semantic domains: Linear Movement

Subdomains: Leave, Depart, Flee, Escape, Send

Definition: to move quickly from a point or area in order to avoid presumed danger or difficulty

Show passage in OET: MAT 2:13

OET-RV MAT 2:13

13 After they’d departed, one of Yahweh’s messengers appeared to Yosef (Joseph) in a dream and said, “Leave now and take the child and his mother, and flee to Mitsrayim (Egypt). Remain there until I tell you, because King Herodes (Herod) will soon search for the child in order to kill him.”

OET-LV MAT 2:13

13 And having _withdrawn from _them, see, a_messenger of_the_master is _appearing in a_dream to_ the _Yōsaʸf/(Yōşēf) saying:
Having _been _raised, take the little _child and the mother of _him, and be _fleeing into Aiguptos/(Miʦrayim), and be there until wishfully I _may _tell to _you, because/for Haʸrōdaʸs is _going to _be _seeking the little _child which to _destroy him.

Show passage in OET: MAT 8:33

OET-RV MAT 8:33

33 Then the men who’d been grazing them took off, and when they got to the city they reported everything, including what had happened to the demon-possessed men.

OET-LV MAT 8:33

33 And the ones feeding them fled, and having _gone _away into the city, they _reported all things and the things of _the ones being _demon _possessed.

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All 19 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: OET MAT 2:13 · OET MAT 8:33 · OET MAT 10:23 · OET MAT 24:16 · OET MAT 26:56

MRK: OET MRK 5:14 · OET MRK 13:14 · OET MRK 14:50 · OET MRK 14:52 · OET MRK 16:8

LUK: OET LUK 8:34 · OET LUK 21:21

JHN: OET JHN 10:5 · OET JHN 10:12

ACT: OET ACT 7:29 · OET ACT 27:30

CO1: OET CO1 10:14

JAM: OET JAM 4:7

REV: OET REV 9:6

Sense 2: to escape, to avoid

Semantic entry: 21.14

Semantic domains: Danger, Risk, Safe, Save

Subdomains: Become Safe, Free from Danger

Definition: to become safe from danger by avoiding or escaping{N:001}

Show passage in OET: MAT 3:7

OET-RV MAT 3:7

7 But when Yohan saw many from the party of the Farisaios and from the Saddoukaios (Sadducee) sect coming for immersion, he told them, “You brood of snakes, who warned you all to flee from God’s severe anger that’s coming?

OET-LV MAT 3:7

7 But having _seen many of _the Farisaios_party and Saddoukaios_sect coming to the immersion of _him, he _said to _them:
Brood of _vipers, who warned to _you _all to _flee from the coming severe _anger?

Show passage in OET: MAT 23:33

OET-RV MAT 23:33

33 Bunch of snakes! Brood of vipers! How are you planning to escape being condemned to hell?

OET-LV MAT 23:33

33 Serpents, brood of _vipers, how may _you _all _escape from the judgement of_ the _geenna?

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All 5 recorded passages for this sense

MAT: OET MAT 3:7 · OET MAT 23:33

LUK: OET LUK 3:7

HEB: OET HEB 11:34

REV: OET REV 12:6

Sense 3: to cease quickly, to disappear rapidly

Semantic entry: 13.95

Semantic domains: Be, Become, Exist, Happen

Subdomains: Exist

Definition: to cease rapidly to exist

Notes: For another interpretation of φεύγω in OET REV 16:20, see 24.6: φεύγω.

Show passage in OET: REV 16:20

OET-RV REV 16:20

20 All the islands vanished, and mountains could no longer be seen.

OET-LV REV 16:20

20 And every island fled, and the_mountains not were _found.

Show passage in OET: REV 20:11

OET-RV REV 20:11

11 Then I saw a large white throne with someone sitting on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence but they couldn’t find where to go.

OET-LV REV 20:11

11 And I _saw a_throne great white, and the one sitting on on _it, whose from the face fled the earth and the heaven, and place not was _found for _them.

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Sense 4: to avoid

Semantic entry: 13.161

Semantic domains: Be, Become, Exist, Happen

Subdomains: Happen

Definition: (a figurative extension of meaning of φεύγω[a] ‘to flee,’ 15.61: φεύγω / 15.61: φυγή) to avoid doing something, with the evident purpose of attempting to avoid danger

Show passage in OET: CO1 6:18

OET-RV CO1 6:18

18 Don’t just walk away from sexual immorality, but run away from it, because other forms of disobeying God are outside the body, but sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.

OET-LV CO1 6:18