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Greek verb · G4762

στρέφω

strephostref'-o

to turn

21 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: stréphō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4762is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 5 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 11
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G4762

to twist, i.e. turn quite around or reverse (literally or figuratively)

The King James renders it: convert, turn (again, back again, self, self about).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

strepho is rendered "to turn". It stands 21 times in the Greek text, across five books.

  • Seven of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 5:39But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also;
  • The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.

The first use

But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also;

Matthew 5:39στρέψον

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Seven of the word's twenty-one uses are in Luke.

The other 22 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • having turned11
  • do turn1
  • Having turned around1
  • he turned1
  • may turn1
  • she turned1
  • they turned back1
  • to turn1
  • Turned away1
  • we are turning1
  • you may turn1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

στρεβλόωstreblooto distortUses1

All 21, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

11 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • στραφεὶς10
  • ἔστρεψεν2
  • ἐστράφη1
  • ἐστράφησαν1
  • στραφεῖσα1
  • στραφέντες1
  • στραφῆτε1
  • στραφῶσιν1
  • στρέφειν1
  • στρεφόμεθα1
  • στρέψον1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular10V-2APP-NSM
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-2AAI-3S
  • verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-2API-3P
  • verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-2API-3S
  • verb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1V-2APP-NPM
  • verb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1V-2APP-NSF
  • verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 2nd person plural1V-2APS-2P
  • verb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 3rd person plural1V-2APS-3P
  • verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singular1V-AAM-2S
  • verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PAN
  • verb · present passive, indicative · 1st person plural1V-PPI-1P

Matthew

six uses
  • But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also;

    Matthew 5:39

    • στρέψονstrepsonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do turn
  • Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.

    Matthew 7:6

    • στραφέντεςstraphentesverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having turned
  • Jesus turned and saw her. “Take courage, daughter,” He said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was cured from that very hour.

    Matthew 9:22

    • στραφεὶςstrapheisverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having turned
  • But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”

    Matthew 16:23

    • στραφεὶςstrapheisverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having turned
  • “Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

    Matthew 18:3

    • στραφῆτεstrapheteverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 2nd person pluraltagged: you may turn
  • When Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.

    Matthew 27:3

    • ἔστρεψενestrepsenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he turned

Luke

seven uses
  • When Jesus heard this, He marveled at the centurion. Turning to the crowd following Him, He said, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such great faith.”

    Luke 7:9

    • στραφεὶςstrapheisverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having turned
  • And turning toward the woman, He said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give Me water for My feet, but she wet My feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

    Luke 7:44

    • στραφεὶςstrapheisverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having turned
  • But Jesus turned and rebuked them.

    Luke 9:55

    • στραφεὶςstrapheisverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Having turned
  • Then Jesus turned to the disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.

    Luke 10:23

    • στραφεὶςstrapheisverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having turned
  • Large crowds were now traveling with Jesus, and He turned and said to them,

    Luke 14:25

    • στραφεὶςstrapheisverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having turned
  • And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word that the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.”

    Luke 22:61

    • στραφεὶςstrapheisverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having turned
  • But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

    Luke 23:28

    • στραφεὶςstrapheisverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Having turned

John

four uses
  • Jesus turned and saw them following. “What do you want?” He asked. They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are You staying?”

    John 1:38

    • Στραφεὶςstrapheisverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Having turned
  • “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”

    John 12:40

    • στραφῶσινstraphosinverb · aorist passive, subjunctive · 3rd person pluraltagged: may turn
  • When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there; but she did not recognize that it was Jesus.

    John 20:14

    • ἐστράφηestrapheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: she turned
  • Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to Him in Hebrew, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).

    John 20:16

    • στραφεῖσαstrapheisaverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Having turned around

Acts

three uses
  • But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

    Acts 7:39

    • ἐστράφησανestraphesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they turned back
  • But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

    Acts 7:42

    • ἔστρεψενestrepsenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: Turned away
  • Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.

    Acts 13:46

    • στρεφόμεθαstrephomethaverb · present passive, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: we are turning

Revelation

one use
  • These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.

    Revelation 11:6

    • στρέφεινstrepheinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to turn

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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