pheugō · flee

What it means

pheugō (φεύγω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “flee”.

Escape.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To run away from something.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• flee ×13
• fled ×11
• escape ×2
• flees ×2
• escaped ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×7
• Mark×5
• Luke×3
• John×2
• Acts×2
• 1 Corinthians×2
• 1 Timothy×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×1
• James×1
• Revelation×4

• Matthew 2:13

  And when they had withdrawn, look, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child to destroy him.”

• Matthew 3:7

  But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, “Offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

• Matthew 8:33

  And those who were tending them fled, and going away into the town, they reported everything, including what had happened to those possessed by demons.

• Matthew 10:23

  When they persecute you in this town, flee to the next; for truly I tell you, you will never finish going through the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

• Matthew 23:33

  Snakes, offspring of vipers, how will you escape from the judgment of Gehenna?

• Matthew 24:16

  then let those in Judea flee to the mountains;

• Matthew 26:56

  But all this has happened so that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

• Mark 5:14

  And those who tended them fled and reported it in the town and in the countryside; and people came to see what it was that had happened.

• Mark 13:14

  But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those in Judea flee to the mountains;

• Mark 14:50

  And leaving him, they all fled.

• Mark 14:52

  but he left the linen cloth and fled naked.

• Mark 16:8

  And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid. Shorter ending: And all that they had been commanded they reported briefly to those around Peter. And after these things Jesus himself also sent out through them, from east to west, the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation. Amen.

• Luke 3:7

  So he was saying to the crowds that were coming out to be immersed by him, “Brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

• Luke 8:34

  And when those who were tending them saw what had happened, they fled and reported it in the town and in the countryside.

• Luke 21:21

  Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those in the middle of it must get out, and those in the fields must not enter into it;

• John 10:5

  But a stranger they will never follow; instead they will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”

• John 10:12

  The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes them and scatters them.

• Acts 7:29

  And at this word Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he fathered two sons.

• Acts 27:30

  And when the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had lowered the boat into the sea, on the pretext that they were going to lay out anchors from the bow,

• 1 Corinthians 6:18

  Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

• 1 Corinthians 10:14

  Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

• 1 Timothy 6:11

  But you, O man of God, flee these things; and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.

• 2 Timothy 2:22

  But flee youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

• Hebrews 11:34

  quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put to flight the armies of foreigners.

• James 4:7

  Submit then to God. And resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

• Revelation 9:6

  And in those days people will seek death and will never find it; and they will long to die, and death flees from them.

• Revelation 12:6

  And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has there a place prepared by God, so that there they may nourish her for one thousand two hundred sixty days.

• Revelation 16:20

  And every island fled, and mountains were not found.

• Revelation 20:11

  And I saw a great white throne and the one who sat on it, from whose presence the earth and heaven fled, and no place was found for them.