φυγαδευτήριον
city of refuge
Where this word appears
Every passage where φυγαδευτήριον appears in the Greek Septuagint — 16 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Numbers 35:6 φυγαδευτήριον And you⌃ shall give the cities to the Levites, the six cities of refuge which you⌃ shall give for the slayer to flee there, and in addition to these, forty-two cities.
- Numbers 35:11 φυγαδευτήριον And you⌃ shall appoint to yourselves cities: they shall be to you cities of refuge for the slayer to flee to, every one who has killed another unintentionally.
- Numbers 35:12 φυγαδευτήριον And the cities shall be to you places of refuge from the avenger of blood, and the slayer shall not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
- Numbers 35:13 φυγαδευτήριον And the cities which you⌃ shall assign, even the six cities, shall be places of refuge for you.
- Numbers 35:15 φυγαδευτήριον It shall be a place of refuge for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for him that sojourns among you; these cities shall be for a place of refuge, for every one to flee there who has killed a man unintentionally.
- Numbers 35:25 φυγαδευτήριον And the congregation shall rescue the slayer from the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he fled for refuge; and he shall dwell there till the death of the high-priest, whom they anointed with the holy oil.
- Numbers 35:32 φυγαδευτήριον You⌃ shall not accept a ransom to excuse his fleeing to the city of refuge, so that he should again dwell in the land, until the death of the high-priest.
- Joshua 20:2 φυγαδευτήριον Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses.
- Joshua 20:3 φυγαδευτήριον Even a refuge to the slayer who has struck a man unintentionally; and the cities shall be to you a refuge, and the slayer shall not be put to death by the avenger of blood, until he have stood before the congregation for judgment.
- Joshua 20:3 φυγαδευτήριον Even a refuge to the slayer who has struck a man unintentionally; and the cities shall be to you a refuge, and the slayer shall not be put to death by the avenger of blood, until he have stood before the congregation for judgment.
- Joshua 21:13 φυγαδευτήριον And to the sons of Aaron he gave the city of refuge for the slayer, Chebron, and the suburbs belonging to it; and Lemna and the suburbs belonging to it;
- Joshua 21:21 φυγαδευτήριον out of the tribe of Ephraim; and they gave them the slayer's city of refuge, Sychem, and its suburbs, and Gazara and its appendages, and its suburbs;
- Joshua 21:36 φυγαδευτήριον And beyond Jordan over against Jericho, out of the tribe of Ruben, the city of refuge for the slayer, Bosor in the wilderness; Miso and its suburbs; and Jazer and its suburbs; and Decmon and its suburbs; and Mapha and its suburbs; four cities.
- Joshua 21:38 φυγαδευτήριον All these cities were given to the sons of Merari according to the families of them that were left out of the tribe of Levi; and their limits were the twelve cities.
- 1 Chronicles 6:42 φυγαδευτήριον the son of Adai, the son of Aetham, the son of Zammam, the son of Semei,
- 1 Chronicles 6:52 φυγαδευτήριον Mariel his son, Amaria his son, Achitob his son,
About this word
About this word
φυγαδευτήριον (phygadeutḗrion), “city of refuge,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 16 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →