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Koine Greek wordlink #95349

SR GNT Acts 16:27 ἐκπεφευγέναι (ekpefeugenai) ‘himself to_be killing thinking to_have escaped the prisoners’ Strongs=16280 Lemma=ekfeugō
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=perfect voice=active
Year=53 AD Event=Philippian_jailer_converted TimeSeries=Paul_and_Silas_imprisoned,Second_Missionary_Journey,Philippian_jailer_converted

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Only use of identical word form ἐκπεφευγέναι (V-NEA····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐκπεφευγέναι’ (V-NEA····) is always and only glossed as ‘to_have escaped’.

Acts 16:27 ‘himself to_be killing thinking to_have escaped the prisoners’ SR GNT Acts 16:27 word 24

OET-LV: 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_16:27)

OET-RV: 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. (ACT 16:27)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘ekfeugō’ have 6 different glosses: ‘to escape’, ‘to_have escaped’, ‘will_be escaping’, ‘I escaped’, ‘they may escape’, ‘escaped_out’.

Greek words (2) other than ἐκπεφευγέναι (V-NEA····) with a gloss related to ‘escaped’

2 COR 11:33 ἐξέφυγον (exefugon) V-IAA1··S ‘the wall and I escaped the hands of him’ SR GNT 2 Cor 11:33 word 11

OET-LV: 33 but through a_window in a_basket, I _was _lowered through the wall and I _escaped the hands of _him. (CO2_11:33)

OET-RV: 33 but I was lowered down from a window in the city wall in a basket and thus able to escape his clutch. (CO2 11:33)

HEB 11:34 ἔφυγον (efugon) V-IAA3··P Lemma=feugō ‘extinguished the power of fire escaped the mouths of the sword were enabled’ SR GNT Heb 11:34 word 4

OET-LV: 34 extinguished the_power of _fire, escaped the_mouths of_the_sword, were _enabled from weakness, were _become mighty in war, the_armies routed of _strangers. (HEB_11:34)

OET-RV: 34 survived the power of a fiery furnace untouched, escaped slashing swords, overcame their own weaknesses, became mighty warriors, and routed foreign armies. (HEB 11:34)

Key: V=verb