UBS Greek Dictionary Article

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: ἐκφεύγω; aor.; ἐξέφυγον; ἐκφεύγω; inf.; ἐκφυγεῖν

Related lemmas: φεύγω

Sense 1: to flee out of, to flee from, to escape

Semantic entry: 15.63

Semantic domains: Linear Movement

Subdomains: Leave, Depart, Flee, Escape, Send

Definition: to flee from or out of

ACT 16:27: RV ACT 16:27 · LV ACT 16:27 · Read together ACT 16:27

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OET-RV ACT 16:27

27 The prison officer woke up, and when he saw that all the prison doors were open, he drew his sword to take his own life as he figured that all the prisoners must have escaped.

OET-LV ACT 16:27

27 And the prison _guard having _become awoken, and having _seen the doors of _the prison having _been _opened _up, having _drawn his sword he _was _going to _be _killing himself, thinking the prisoners to _have _escaped.

ACT 19:16: RV ACT 19:16 · LV ACT 19:16 · Read together ACT 19:16

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OET-RV ACT 19:16

16 Then the man who had the evil spirit would jump on them and beat them up so they’d end up escaping out of the house naked and wounded.

OET-LV ACT 19:16

16 And the man in whom was the the evil spirit having _leapt _on, on, them, having _exercised _mastership over _both, it _prevailed against against _them, so _that to _escape out _of the that house naked and having _been _wounded.

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}

Notes: The meaning of this part of RV ROM 2:3 · LV ROM 2:3 · Read together ROM 2:3 is ‘to become free from the danger of being judged by God.’ ἵνα κατισχύσητε ἐκφυγεῖν ταῦτα πάντα τὰ μέλλοντα γίνεσθαι ‘in order that you may be able to escape all of these things that are going to happen’ RV LUK 21:36 · LV LUK 21:36 · Read together LUK 21:36. In RV ROM 2:3 · LV ROM 2:3 · Read together ROM 2:3 and RV LUK 21:36 · LV LUK 21:36 · Read together LUK 21:36 ἐκφεύγω should not be understood in the literal sense of running away from (see 15.63: ἐκφεύγω). The meaning is simply not to become involved in such danger.