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Strong's #1593 - ἐκνεύω
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- to bend to one side
- to take one's self away, to turn one's self, to avoid a thing
- to swim away, escape by swimming
- to escape, slip away secretly
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ἐκνεύω,
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1. aor. ἐξένευσα, turn the head out of its natural position, of a horse, ἐ. ἄνω to toss the head, X. Eq. 5.4; τῇ κεφαλῇ ἐκνεύσας by a side-movement with the head, of the wild boar, Id. Cyn. 10.12, cf. LXX 2 Kings 23:16.
2. c. acc., shun, avoid, Phld. Sign. 27, Ph. 1.146, Orph. A. 458; ξίφος Hegesias ap. D.H. Comp. 18; πληγήν D.S. 17.100.
II fall headlong, εἰς θάνατον E. Ph. 1268; ἐ. πρός τι to turn aside, Ph. 1.297: c. gen., τῶν παρόντων Plot. 6.7.34.
III motion away, ἐξένευσ' ἀποστῆναι πρόσω E. IT 1330.
ἐκνεύω: 1 aorist ἐξένευσα;
1. to bend to one side (τῇ κεφαλή, Xenophon, ven. 10, 12).
2. to take oneself away, withdraw: John 5:13, where Chrysostom says that ἐξενευσε is equivalent to ἐξεκλινε; but others derive the form from ἐκνέω, which see (the Sept. for סוּר, Judges 4:18 Alex.; פָּנָה, to turn oneself, Judges 18:26 Alex.; 2 Kings 2:24; 2 Kings 23:16; (add 3Macc. 3:22; Josephus, Antiquities 7, 4, 2). In secular authors also transitively, to avoid a thing; as τά βέλη, Diodorus 15, 87; πληγήν, ibid. 17, 100.)
STRONGS NT 1593: ἐκνέω ἐκνέω
1. properly, to swim away, escape by swimming (Thucydides 2, 90).
2. to escape, slip away secretly ((Pindar Ol. 13, 163); Euripides, Hipp. 470, etc.); in this sense many interpretations take ἐξενευσε in John 5:13. But Jesus withdrew not to avoid danger but the admiration of the people; for the danger first arose after his withdrawal.
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ἐκ -νεύω ,
[in LXX: Judges 4:18 (H5493) Judges 18:26, 2 Kings 2:24; 2 Kings 23:16 (H6437), Micah 6:14 (H5472 hi.), 3 Maccabees 3:22*;]
1. to bend the head aside (Xen.).
2. (a) to shun, avoid (Diod.);
(b) to withdraw: John 5:13†
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For a transitive use of this NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (John 5:13) see BGU IV. 1189.7 (c. B.C. 1) τῶν προκιμένων ἀνδρῶν ἐγνενευκότων τὴν ἐνφανήαν ἠναγκάσθην κτλ. In the Jn passage the verb is best rendered intransitively ";had turned aside,"; ";had retired"; : cf. Field Notes, p. 88.
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