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 27New Testament books
- 11spellings
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.
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| στρεβλόω | strebloo | to distort | Uses1 |
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;
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- στραφεὶςstrapheisverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having turned
But Jesus turned and rebuked them.
- 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.
- στραφεὶςstrapheisverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having turned
Large crowds were now traveling with Jesus, and He turned and said to them,
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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?”
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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”).
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
