Ekpheugo means “flee” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1628 — geruth (“habitation”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1628 ἐκφεύγω (ekpheugo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. ekpheugo (ek-fyoo'-go) v. 1. to flee out [from G1537 and G5343] It has 28 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include escape and out. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
ekpheugo (ek-fyoo'-go) v. 1. to flee out [from G1537 and G5343] KJV: escape, flee Root(s): G1537, G5343
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1628. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to escape
Usage: ἐκ-φεύγω [in LXX for נוּס, etc. ;] to flee away, escape: absol., Act.16:27, 1Th.5:3, Heb.2:3; before ἐκ, Act.19:10; with accusative of person(s), Heb.12:25; with accusative of thing(s), Luk.21:36, Rom.2:3; τ. χεῖρας αὐτοῦ, 2Co.11:33.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ekpheugo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1628 (ἐκφεύγω) appears 20 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
7 indexed usages in New Testament.
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
4 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And an angel of the Lord came, and sat down under the fir tree, which was in Ophrah in the land of Joash father of Ezer; and Gideon his son was threshing wheat in a winepress in order to escape from the face of Midian.
Neither shall he in anywise escape the darkness: Let the wind blast his blossom, And let his flower fall off.
But if thou refrain thy lips thou wilt be prudent.
15 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
For he doth scourge, and hath mercy: he leadeth down to hell, and bringeth up again: neither is there any that can avoid his hand.
For though for the present time I should be delivered from the punishment of men: yet should I not escape the hand of the Almighty, neither alive, nor dead.
for thou hast not yet escaped the judgment of Almighty God, who seeth all things.
2 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.
upon the whole earth, and will destroy all that is on it. And now instruct him that he may escape
And then shall all the righteous escape, And shall live till they beget thousands of children And all the days of their youth and their old age Shall they complete in peace.
First 28 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1628.
And an angel of the Lord came, and sat down under the fir tree, which was in Ophrah in the land of Joash father of Ezer; and Gideon his son was threshing wheat in a winepress in order to escape from the face of Midian.
Neither shall he in anywise escape the darkness: Let the wind blast his blossom, And let his flower fall off.
But if thou refrain thy lips thou wilt be prudent.
Before she that travailed brought forth, before the travail pain came on, she escaped it and brought forth a male.
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
For he doth scourge, and hath mercy: he leadeth down to hell, and bringeth up again: neither is there any that can avoid his hand.
For though for the present time I should be delivered from the punishment of men: yet should I not escape the hand of the Almighty, neither alive, nor dead.
for thou hast not yet escaped the judgment of Almighty God, who seeth all things.
not distrusting my health, but having great hope to escape this sickness.
These things he said: and they, released the same moment, having now escaped death, praised God their holy Savior.
But thou art tortured with threatenings for impiety; and thou shalt not escape, most corrupt tyrant, the vengeance of Divine wrath.
Neither are they beautiful, so much as to be desired in respect of beasts: But they went without the praise of God and his blessing.
Be willing to hear every godly discourse: And let not the parables of understanding escape thee.
My son, meddle not with many matters: For if thou meddle much, thou shalt not be innocent; And if thou follow after, thou shalt not obtain, Neither shalt thou escape by fleeing.
The sinner shall not escape with his spoils: And the patience of the godly shall not be frustrate.
Follow after him no more, for he is too far off; He is as a roe escaped out of the snare.
Little or nothing is his rest, And afterward he is in his sleep as in a day of keeping watch, Troubled in the vision of his heart, As if he were escaped out of a battle.
neither can they show signs in the heavens among the heathen, nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon.
upon the whole earth, and will destroy all that is on it. And now instruct him that he may escape
And then shall all the righteous escape, And shall live till they beget thousands of children And all the days of their youth and their old age Shall they complete in peace.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1628, grouped by book.
Ekpheugo (Strong's G1628) is a Greek word most simply glossed "flee". ekpheugo (ek-fyoo'-go) v. 1. to flee out [from G1537 and G5343]
This page currently indexes 28 linked usages for Strong's G1628 across 20 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1628 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as escape and out. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 4 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 15 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 2 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G1628, with linked reader references where each row is available.