ἀποφεύγω
apopheúgō · G668 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to escape, to avoid
To become safe from danger by avoiding or escaping
Examples2 Peter 1:4 Through these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world on account of lust.
2 Peter 2:18 For, while speaking out arrogant words of no value they entice by fleshly desires, by indecent behavior, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,
2 Peter 2:20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated in the clause 2
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
3 occurrences in 5 groups
- ἐπιθυμίαdesire, lust 1
- κόσμοςworld 1
- μίασμαimpurity 1
- ἀναστρέφωto live, to conduct oneself 1
- φθοράruin 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin+ ἐπίγνωσιςknowledge 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὀλίγοςfew 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- δελεάζωto lead astray 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- To escape, to avoid21.14
- In 2 Peter 1:4, believers are described as those who “by them may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped (apophygóntes) the corruption that is in the world on account of lust,” describing an escape from moral ruin.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (participle in 2 Pet 2:18 L T Tr WH; Winer's Grammar, 342 (321)); 2 aorist ἀπεφυγον;…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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