To escape notice describes something not known or recognized by a particular observer, with the sentence supplying both the event and the person whose awareness matters. Mark says Jesus enters a house in Tyre without wanting His presence known but cannot escape notice.
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To escape notice describes something not known or recognized by a particular observer, with the sentence supplying both the event and the person whose awareness matters. Mark says Jesus enters a house in Tyre without wanting His presence known but cannot escape notice.
The BSB source-word alignment has 6 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include escape your notice (1), has escaped (1), overlook (1), she could not escape notice (1), to escape their notice (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Mark 7:24. Its strongest book concentrations include 2 Peter (2), Acts (1), Hebrews (1), Luke (1).
To escape notice describes something not known or recognized by a particular observer, with the sentence supplying both the event and the person whose awareness matters. Mark says Jesus enters a house in Tyre without wanting His presence known but cannot escape notice. Hebrews encourages hospitality because some have entertained angels without knowing it. Paul tells Agrippa that he is confident the matters of his defense have not escaped the king's notice.
These settings concern attempted privacy, hospitality without full recognition and an expressly attributed claim about another person's knowledge. The verb does not make hiddenness morally wrong or grant a universal power to discover what others know. Nor does hospitality require claiming that every stranger is an angel. Follow the actual observer, the thing noticed and the passage's stated response, preserving compassion without speculative identities or pressure to disregard ordinary protective boundaries.
Jesus' noticed presence, unknowing hospitality and Paul's stated confidence about Agrippa's awareness have different actors and purposes. Notice and nonrecognition describe actual relations of knowledge rather than one moral judgment about every hidden event.
Jesus left that place and went to the region of Tyre. Not wanting anyone to know He was there, He entered a house, but was unable to escape their notice.
Jesus enters a house in the region of Tyre without wanting His presence known, but a woman soon hears about Him and comes; the account names that actual movement rather than a universal rule about privacy.
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
The hospitality instruction mentions some who entertained angels without knowing it, beside brotherly love and remembrance of mistreated people; it does not identify every guest as an angel.
For the king knows about these matters, and I can speak freely to him. I am confident that none of this has escaped his notice, because it was not done in a corner.
Paul expresses confidence that the matters have not escaped Agrippa's notice because they were not done in a corner; this remains Paul's stated defense rather than an asserted inventory of every observer's knowledge.
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Greek word. To escape notice or act unawares; often used idiomatically with participles for inadvertent actions.
To escape notice or act unawares; often used idiomatically with participles for inadvertent actions.
to escape notice, be hidden (from): Mrk.7:24, Luk.8:47; with accusative of person(s), Act.26:26, 2Pe.3:5 3:8; as in common cl. idiom, before ptcp., ἔλαθον ξενίσαντες, entertained unawares, Heb.13:2 (cf. ἐκ-, ἐπι-λανθάνω).
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
6 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
I am hidden, escape notice
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
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How this verb appears across 6 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
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Hebrews grounds hospitality partly in an experience where the hosts did not fully know whom they welcomed. The instruction does not ask readers first to detect an angel or promise that every guest has that identity. Its neighboring calls to brotherly love and remembrance of mistreated people keep attention on actual care. Mark supplies a different scene, where Jesus' presence becomes known despite His stated wish for privacy.
Acts supplies another, where Paul expresses confidence about Agrippa's knowledge during his defense. These uses must not be collapsed into a general declaration that hidden things are wrong or that every person's awareness can be inferred. Second Peter also warns readers not to overlook a particular teaching, tying the verb to an identified truth rather than an occult discovery method.
Reading the observer and event carefully supports truthful attention, compassionate hospitality and restraint about what has not actually been disclosed.
Heb.13.2
The licensed Greek verb concerns escaping notice or being hidden from someone; the hospitality construction expresses an action done without knowing the visitors' identity. Different observers and known matters belong to the sentences, not separate canonical senses inferred from grammatical constructions. Hebrew concealment vocabulary remains a distinct comparison.
Genesis 19:1-3 explicitly identifies two angels arriving at Sodom and records Lot's invitation and meal. That named hospitality account can be studied alongside Hebrews without asserting that Hebrews identifies a particular episode as its exclusive reference or requiring every present guest to be an angel. The actual narrative does not supply a universal rule to disregard safety.