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Strong's #668 - ἀποφεύγω
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- to flee from, escape
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ἀπο-φεύγω,
fut. -φεύξομαι Pl. Ap. 39a; -οῦμαι Ar. Av. 932: pf. -πέφευγα X. An. 3.4.9, etc.: —
1. flee from, escape, c.acc., Batr. 42, 47; σοφίην ὁ σοφώτατος οὐκ ἀποφεύγει Thgn. 1159; τὴν πεπρωμένην μοῖραν Hdt. 1.91; τὴν μάχην Id. 5.102; κῆρα S. Ph. 1166 (lyr.), cf. Pl. Ap. 30a; νόσον D. 28.15; ἀ. ἐκ τῶν πλησίον κωμῶν X. An. 3.4.9; ἐς Νίσαιαν Th. 1.114: rarely c. gen., ἀ. τῆς φθορᾶς 2 Peter 1:4 : c. inf., auoid, λέγειν Phlp. in Ph. 617.14: abs., get safe away, escape, Hdt. 1.1, 9.102, etc.; go free, of manumitted slaves, IG 2.786, al. II as law-term, ἀ. πολλὸν τοὺς διώκοντας Hdt. 6.82; τινά And. 1.123; φεύγων ἂν ἀποφύγοι δίκην Ar. Nu. 167, cf. 1151; γραφάς Antipho 2.1.16; εὐθύνας Pl. Lg. 946d: c. dupl. acc. pers. et rei, ἀπέφυγον αὐτοὺς τὰς δίκας ἅς μοι ἐνεκάλουν D. 40.19.
2. abs., get clear off, be acquitted, opp. ἁλίσκομαι, Hdt. 2.174, Pl. Ap. 35c, D. 18.103; κἂν.. εἰσέλθῃ φεύγων οὐκ ἀποφεύγει Ar. V. 579.
3. of a woman in child-birth, bring to birth, ἀ. τὸ παιδίον ἐν τῷ τόκῳ Hp. Mul. 1.25; also ἀ. τοῦ παιδίου ib. 33: intr., ἢν τὰ ὕστερα μὴ δύνηται ἀποφυγεῖν Id. Nat.Mul. 56.
ἀποφεύγω (participle in 2 Peter 2:18 L T Tr WH; Winer's Grammar, 342 (321)); 2 aorist ἀπεφυγον; (from (Homer) batrach. 42, 47 down); to flee from, escape; with the accusative, 2 Peter 2:18 (where L T wrongly put a comma after ἀποφεύγοντας (Winers Grammar, 529 (492))), 20; with the genitive, by virtue of the preposition (Buttmann, 158 (138); Winer's Grammar, § 52, 4, 1 c.), 2 Peter 1:4.
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** ἀπο -φεύγω ,
[in LXX: Sirach 22:22*;]
to flee from, escape: c. acc, 2 Peter 2:18; 2 Peter 2:20; c. gen., 2 Peter 1:4.†
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P Ryl II. 77.39 (A.D. 192) ἀναδεξάμενος τὴν μείζονα ἀρχὴν οὐκ ὀφείλει τὴν ἐλάττον᾽ ἀποφεύγειν.
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