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Greek verb · G5290

ὑποστρέφω

hypostrephohoop-os-tref'-o

trans., to turn back or about (Hem.).; Intrans.

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

Concordance spelling: hypostréphō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5290is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 5 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 14
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G5290

to turn under (behind), i.e. to return (literally or figuratively)

The King James renders it: come again, return (again, back again), turn back (again).

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

hypostrepho is rendered "trans., to turn back or about (Hem.).; Intrans.". It stands 35 times in the Greek text, across five books.

  • Twenty-one of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "trans., to turn back or about (Hem.).".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 1:56Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.
  • The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.

The first use

Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.

Luke 1:56ὑπέστρεψεν

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

Where the word stands

Twenty-one of the word's thirty-five uses are in Luke.

The other 22 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: trans., to turn back or about (Hem.)., and Intrans..

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
trans., to turn back or about (Hem.).Tagged as
  • turned back2
  • do return1
  • he returned1
  • I will return1
  • to have turned1
  • were returning1
  • were travelling back1
WhereLuke 1:56Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.
Intrans.to turn back, returnTagged as
  • returned9
  • having returned6
  • they returned5
  • returning4
  • to return3
WhereLuke 1:56Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.

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.

ὑπόστασιςhypostasisconfidence/essenceUses5
ὑποστέλλωhypostelloto withdrawUses4
ὑποστολήhypostoleshrinkingUses1
ὑποστρώννυμιhypostronnymito spreadUses1

All 35, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

14 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

  • ὑπέστρεψαν10
  • ὑπέστρεψεν6
  • ὑποστρέφειν4
  • ὑποστρέψαντες3
  • ὑποστρέψαι2
  • ὑποστρέψασαι2
  • ὑπέστρεφον1
  • ὑπέστρεφον.¶1
  • ὑπέστρεψα1
  • ὑπόστρεφε1
  • ὑποστρέφοντι1
  • ὑποστρέφων1

and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural10V-AAI-3P
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular6V-AAI-3S
  • verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)4V-PAN
  • verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural3V-AAP-NPM
  • verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)2V-AAN
  • verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine plural2V-AAP-NPF
  • verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person plural2V-IAI-3P
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-AAI-1S
  • verb · aorist active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1V-AAP-DSM
  • verb · future active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-FAI-1S
  • verb · present active, command · 2nd person singular1V-PAM-2S
  • verb · present active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1V-PAP-DSM

Luke

twenty-one uses
  • Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.

    Luke 1:56

    • ὑπέστρεψενhupestrepsenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: returned
  • The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, which was just as the angel had told them.

    Luke 2:20

    • ὑπέστρεψανhupestrepsanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: returned
  • When those days were over and they were returning home, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but His parents were unaware He had stayed.

    Luke 2:43

    • ὑποστρέφεινhupostrepheinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: returning
  • When they could not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for Him.

    Luke 2:45

    • ὑπέστρεψανhupestrepsanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they returned
  • Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

    Luke 4:1

    • ὑπέστρεψενhupestrepsenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: returned
  • Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and the news about Him spread throughout the surrounding region.

    Luke 4:14

    • ὑπέστρεψενhupestrepsenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: returned
  • And when the messengers returned to the house, they found the servant in good health.

    Luke 7:10

    • ὑποστρέψαντεςhupostrepsantesverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having returned
  • Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to depart from them, because great fear had taken hold of them. So He got into the boat and started back.

    Luke 8:37

    • ὑπέστρεψενhupestrepsenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: turned back
  • “Return home and describe how much God has done for you.” So the man went away and proclaimed all over the town how much Jesus had done for him.

    Luke 8:39

    • ὑπόστρεφεhupostrepheverb · present active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do return
  • When Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed Him, for they had all been waiting for Him.

    Luke 8:40

    • ὑποστρέφεινhupostrepheinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: returning
  • Then the apostles returned and reported to Jesus all that they had done. Taking them away privately, He withdrew to a town called Bethsaida.

    Luke 9:10

    • ὑποστρέψαντεςhupostrepsantesverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having returned
  • The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in Your name.”

    Luke 10:17

    • Ὑπέστρεψανhupestrepsanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: Returned
  • When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’

    Luke 11:24

    • ὑποστρέψωhupostrepsoverb · future active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I will return
  • When one of them saw that he was healed, he came back, praising God in a loud voice.

    Luke 17:15

    • ὑπέστρεψενhupestrepsenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: turned back
  • Was no one found except this foreigner to return and give glory to God?”

    Luke 17:18

    • ὑποστρέψαντεςhupostrepsantesverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having returned
  • So He said, “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to lay claim to his kingship and then return.

    Luke 19:12

    • ὑποστρέψαιhupostrepsaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to return
  • And when all the people who had gathered for this spectacle saw what had happened, they returned home beating their breasts.

    Luke 23:48

    • ὑπέστρεφον.¶hupestrephonverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were returning
  • Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.

    Luke 23:56

    • ὑποστρέψασαιhupostrepsasaiverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: Having returned
  • And when they returned from the tomb, they reported all these things to the Eleven and to all the others.

    Luke 24:9

    • ὑποστρέψασαιhupostrepsasaiverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: having returned
  • And they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven and those with them, gathered together

    Luke 24:33

    • ὑπέστρεψανhupestrepsanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they returned
  • And they worshiped Him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

    Luke 24:52

    • ὑπέστρεψανhupestrepsanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: returned

Acts

eleven uses
  • Then they returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which is near the city, a Sabbath day’s journey away.

    Acts 1:12

    • ὑπέστρεψανhupestrepsanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they returned
  • And after Peter and John had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many of the Samaritan villages.

    Acts 8:25

    • ὑπέστρεφονhupestrephonverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were travelling back
  • and on his return was sitting in his chariot reading Isaiah the prophet.

    Acts 8:28

    • ὑποστρέφωνhupostrephonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: returning
  • When Barnabas and Saul had fulfilled their mission to Jerusalem, they returned, bringing with them John, also called Mark.

    Acts 12:25

    • ὑπέστρεψανhupestrepsanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: returned
  • After setting sail from Paphos, Paul and his companions came to Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them to return to Jerusalem.

    Acts 13:13

    • ὑπέστρεψενhupestrepsenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he returned
  • In fact, God raised Him from the dead, never to see decay. As He has said: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings promised to David.’

    Acts 13:34

    • ὑποστρέφεινhupostrepheinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to return
  • They preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

    Acts 14:21

    • ὑπέστρεψανhupestrepsanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they returned
  • where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.

    Acts 20:3

    • ὑποστρέφεινhupostrepheinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to return
  • And after we had said our farewells, we went aboard the ship, and they returned home.

    Acts 21:6

    • ὑπέστρεψανhupestrepsanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: returned
  • Later, when I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance

    Acts 22:17

    • ὑποστρέψαντιhupostrepsantiverb · aorist active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: having returned
  • The next day they returned to the barracks and let the horsemen go on with him.

    Acts 23:32

    • ὑπέστρεψανhupestrepsanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they returned

Galatians

one use
  • nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles who came before me, but I went into Arabia and later returned to Damascus.

    Galatians 1:17

    • ὑπέστρεψαhupestrepsaverb · aorist active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: returned

Hebrews

one use
  • This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

    Hebrews 7:1

    • ὑποστρέφοντιhupostrephontiverb · present active, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: returning

2 Peter

one use
  • It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.

    2 Peter 2:21

    • ὑποστρέψαιhupostrepsaiverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to have turned

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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