Quick Definition
διαφεύγω v. I escape by flight
Strong's Definition
from 1223 and 5343; to flee through, i.e. escape
KJV Usage: escape
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | aor.subj. διαφύγω | φεύγω
15.64 · Linear Movement · Leave, Depart, Flee, Escape, Send
to flee successfully, to escape by fleeing, to escape to succeed in fleeing from
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
δια-φεύγω: [2 aor. διέφυγον]; fr. Hdt. down; to 7166 through danger, to escape: Acts xxvii. 42, (Prov. xix. 5; Josh. viii. 22).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
διαφεύγω diapheugō 1x
to flee through, escape by flight, Acts 27:42*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
δια-φεύγω
[in LXX: Jos 8:22 (פָּלִיט), ib. 10:28 (שָׂרִיד), etc. ;]
to flee through, escape: Ac 27:42.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
διαφεύγω. The “ perfective” sense in διαφυγεῖν “‘escape through fleeing” (see Proleg. p. 112) comes out well in P Tebt I. 4455 (BC. 114) ph ποτε ἐξ ὑστέρου παθόντος τί μου ἀθῶιος διαφύγηι, ““50 that if anything happens to me subsequently he may not escape unpunished” (Edd.): cf. P Amh II. 131° (early ii/A.D.) ἐλπίζω δὲ θεῶν θελόντων ἐκ τῶν λαλουμένων διαφεύξεσθαι καὶ μετὰ τὴν πεντεκαιδεκάτην ἀναπλεύσειν, “but I hope, if the gods will, to yet escape from the talking and after the fifteenth to return home ” (Edd.).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
διαφεύγω (diapheugō) — to escape. δια-φεύγω, future -φεύξομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+]:—get away from, escape, τινά or τι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; survive, [νόσημα] [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ τῆς Μήλου [Refs 5th c.BC+]; διαφεύγει δ᾽ οὐδὲ νῦν but it is not even now too late, [Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, διεφεύχθη ὁ κίνδυνος [Refs 1st c.AD+]
2. escape one's notice or memory, [Refs 5th c.BC+]