noun · feminine
fugas
Strong’sG5437
flight
stem fug-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
φυγή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< φεύγω), [in LXX chiefly for מָנוֹס and cogn. forms;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5437 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfoog-ay'
a fleeing, i.e. escape
Fromfrom G5343;
King Jamesflight.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(φεύγω) flight in battle, ἀΐξαντε φυγῇ Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐς φ. ὁρμᾶσθαι, ὁρμᾶν, Refs 5th c.BC+; φυγὴν αἱρεῖσθαι, ἀρεῖσθαι, Refs 5th c.BC+; generally, flight, NT; φ. ἑλέσθαι take to flight, Refs 2nd c.AD+ used adverbially, in hasty flight, φυγᾷ πόδα νωμᾶν Refs 5th c.BC+; φεύγειν φ., φ. ἀναχωρεῖν, Refs 5th c.BC+ of the flight of the country people of Attica into the city, in the Pelop. war, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 flight or escape from a thing, avoidance of it, with genitive, γάμον Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to αἵρεσις, Refs 4th c.BC+; opposed to δίωξις, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 place of refuge, Refs 1st c.BC+
4 slipping of a bandage, Refs 5th c.BC+
II banishment, exile, νῦν μὲν δικάζεις ἐκ πόλεως φυγὴν ἐμοί Refs 5th c.BC+; συμφυγεῖν τὴν φ. ταύτην (i.e. ὑμῖν) to go into banishment with.. Refs 5th c.BC+; φυγὴν ἐπιβαλὼν ἑωυτῷ imposing banishment on oneself Refs 5th c.BC+; φυγῆς τιμήσασθαι (i.e. δίκην) the penalty of exile, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπὶ φόνῳ.. φ. Decrees cited in Refs 5th c.BC+; εὐθύνας.. εἶναι.. πλὴν φυγῆς καὶ θανάτου καὶ ἀτιμίας Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 as a collective Noun, ={φυγάδες}, body of exiles or refugees, Refs 5th c.BC+; κατάγειν τὴν φυγήν to recall them, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | fugas1×φυγὴ | fugais |
| object accusative | fugan | fugain |
| direct address vocative | fugar | fugair |
| of, belonging to genitive | fugau | fugaiu |
| to, for dative | fuga | fugai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
fuga is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
fugas“flight”subjectnominative singular1×
Matthew 24:20proseuchovōr de hina mē geneteia tas fugas vu cheimōnou mēde sabbate;Pray that your flight will not occur in the winter …