Strong G654ἀποστρέφω
to turn away
- Transliteration
- apostrephō
- Pronunciation
- ap-os-tref'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
ἀπο-στρέφω
[in LXX chiefly for שׁוּב;]
trans., with accusative,
__(a) to turn away, remove: Rom.11:26, 2Ti.4:4; metaphorically, to turn away from allegiance, pervert: Luk.23:14;
__(b) to turn back, return: μάχαιραν, Mat.26:52. Pass., reflex., to turn oneself away from: with accusative, Mat.5:42, 2Ti.1:15, Tit.1:14, Heb.12:25; so act., absol., Act.3:26 (cf. Sir.8:5; Bl., § 53, 1; Cremer, 880).†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for שׁוּב;]
trans., with accusative,
__(a) to turn away, remove: Rom.11:26, 2Ti.4:4; metaphorically, to turn away from allegiance, pervert: Luk.23:14;
__(b) to turn back, return: μάχαιραν, Mat.26:52. Pass., reflex., to turn oneself away from: with accusative, Mat.5:42, 2Ti.1:15, Tit.1:14, Heb.12:25; so act., absol., Act.3:26 (cf. Sir.8:5; Bl., § 53, 1; Cremer, 880).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G654 appears in 10 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- turn7
- bring1
- perverteth1
- put1
- thou1
First verses
- Matthew 5:42Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
- Matthew 26:52Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
- Matthew 27:3Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
- Luke 23:14Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:
- Acts 3:26Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
- Romans 11:26And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
- 2 Timothy 1:15This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
- 2 Timothy 4:4And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
- Titus 1:14Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
- Hebrews 12:25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἀπο-στρέφω,
Doric dialect aorist ἀποστράψαι[Refs (“SIG” 244 ii 16(Delph.))]; Ionic dialect aorist ἀποστρέψασκε[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.197, etc.)]: perfect ἀπέστροφα[LXX (LXX.1Ki.6.21)]:—passive and middle, future -στρέψομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.5.36, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.387c:)]aorist -εστράφην [ᾰ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (], 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1272, etc.;)] later -εστρεψάμην [LXX+5th c.BC+ (LXX.Hos.8.3, probably in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 776)]: future -στρᾰφήσομαι[LXX (LXX.Num.25.4, +others)]: perfect -έστραμμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.166, etc.: _Ionic dialect_ _3rd.pers._ _plural_)]pluperfect -εστράφατο[Refs ([prev. passage])]; -έστρεμμαι[Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PSI” 4.392.11 (3rd c.BC))]: —turn back: hence, either turn to flight, ὄφρ᾽.. Ἀχαιοὺς αὖτις ἀποστρέψῃσιν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.62, etc., compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.94)]; or turn back from flight, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.3.1)]; send home again, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.97, 5.75)]; ῥῆμα bring back word, [LXX (LXX.2Ki.22.9)]; ἀποστρέψαντε πόδας καὶ χεῖρας having twisted back the hands and feet so as to bind them, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.173, 190,compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1154; τὸν ὦμον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 263; ἀποστρέφετε τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν, ὦ Σκύθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 455; ἀ. τὸν αὐχένα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.188)]; guide back again, ἀποστρέψαντες ἔβαν νέας[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.162)]; ἴχνι᾽ ἀποστρέψας having turned the steps of the oxen backwards so as to make it appear that they had gone the other way, [Refs (“hymnus ad Mercurium” 76)]; turn away, avert, αὐχέν᾽ ἀποστρέψας[Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 858; ἀπέστρεψ᾽ ἔμπαλιν παρηΐδα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1148; but τὸ πρόσωπον πρός τινα 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Publicola” 6)]; bring back, recall, ἐξ ἰσθμοῦ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.6.3)]; φῶτας ἀπέστρεψεν Περσεφόνης θαλάμων [[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus] 156.4.)]
2 turn away or aside, divert, variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.80, etc.)]; ὕδατα cut off water from a besieged town, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 97.4; τὸν Κάϋστρον “SIG” 839.14 (from Ephesus))]; τὸν πόλεμον ἐς Μακεδονίαν[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 2.1.1)]; avert a danger, an evil, etc., πῆμ᾽ ἀ. νόσου[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 850 (from Porson))]; prevent, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.136)]; rebut, δίκην[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 776(see. above); ἀ. τύχην μὴ οὐ γενέσθαι 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.15 codices; ἀ. εἰς τοὐναντίον τοὺς λόγους 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 239d; τὰς πράξεις εἰς τοὺς ἀντιδίκους 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica ad Alexandrum” 1442b6.)]
3 ἀ. τινά τινος dissuade from, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 1.12; τινὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ λήμματος 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 2.23; πότων ἀ. τοὺς στομάχους 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Demosthene” 15.)]
II as if intransitive (i.e. ἑαυτόν, ἵππον, ναῦν, etc.), turn back, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.65; ἀ. ὀπίσω 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.43; ἀ. πάλιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1403.)]
II.2 turn away or aside, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.87)]; of a river, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 4.52; τἀναντία ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.4.12.)]
B passive, to be turned back, ἀπεστράφθαι τοὺς ἐμβόλους, of ships, to have their beaks bent back, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.166)]; ἀποστραφῆναι.. τὼ πόδε to have one's feet twisted, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 279; τρίχες ἀπεστραμμέναι)]closecurled, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physiognomonica” 809b26.)]
B.II middle and passive, turn oneself from or away, ἀπεστραμμέναι ἀπ᾽ ἀλλήλων[Refs ([prev. author] “HA” 611a6; ἀπεστραμμένοι)]back to back, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus “Abhandlungen der Göttinger Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (Phil.-hist. Klasse)” 145.2: especially,)]
B.II.1 turn one's face away from, abandon, with accusative, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Phocylides Lyricus 2, 4th c.AD: Sallustius Philosophus 3; ἐχθροῦ ἀξίωσιν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 215; μή μ᾽ ἀποστραφῇς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1272; μή μ᾽ ἀποστρέφου 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 801, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 683, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.5.36, “PSI” [same place]; τὸ θεῖον ῥᾳδίως ἀπεστράφης 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 159: also with _genitive_, ἄψορρος οἴκων τῶνδ᾽ ἀποστραφείς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 431: with _dative_, ἀστεφανώτοισι ἀπυστρέφονται 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 78: _absolutely_, μὴ πρὸς θεῶν.. ἀποστραφῇς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 326)]; ἀπεστραμμένοι λόγοι hostile words, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.160; τὴν διάνοιαν ἀποστρέφεσθαι)]to be alienated, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” p.80.)]
B.II.2 turn oneself about, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.25; ἅρματα ἀπεστραμμένα ὥσπερ εἰς φυγήν [prev. work] 6.2.17)]; ἀποστραφῆναι λυγιζόμενος escape by wriggling, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 405c.)]
B.II.3 ἀποστραφῆναί τινος fall off from one, desert him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.8.4.)]
Doric dialect aorist ἀποστράψαι[Refs (“SIG” 244 ii 16(Delph.))]; Ionic dialect aorist ἀποστρέψασκε[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.197, etc.)]: perfect ἀπέστροφα[LXX (LXX.1Ki.6.21)]:—passive and middle, future -στρέψομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.5.36, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.387c:)]aorist -εστράφην [ᾰ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (], 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1272, etc.;)] later -εστρεψάμην [LXX+5th c.BC+ (LXX.Hos.8.3, probably in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 776)]: future -στρᾰφήσομαι[LXX (LXX.Num.25.4, +others)]: perfect -έστραμμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.166, etc.: _Ionic dialect_ _3rd.pers._ _plural_)]pluperfect -εστράφατο[Refs ([prev. passage])]; -έστρεμμαι[Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PSI” 4.392.11 (3rd c.BC))]: —turn back: hence, either turn to flight, ὄφρ᾽.. Ἀχαιοὺς αὖτις ἀποστρέψῃσιν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.62, etc., compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.94)]; or turn back from flight, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.3.1)]; send home again, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.97, 5.75)]; ῥῆμα bring back word, [LXX (LXX.2Ki.22.9)]; ἀποστρέψαντε πόδας καὶ χεῖρας having twisted back the hands and feet so as to bind them, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.173, 190,compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1154; τὸν ὦμον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 263; ἀποστρέφετε τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν, ὦ Σκύθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 455; ἀ. τὸν αὐχένα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.188)]; guide back again, ἀποστρέψαντες ἔβαν νέας[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.162)]; ἴχνι᾽ ἀποστρέψας having turned the steps of the oxen backwards so as to make it appear that they had gone the other way, [Refs (“hymnus ad Mercurium” 76)]; turn away, avert, αὐχέν᾽ ἀποστρέψας[Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 858; ἀπέστρεψ᾽ ἔμπαλιν παρηΐδα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1148; but τὸ πρόσωπον πρός τινα 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Publicola” 6)]; bring back, recall, ἐξ ἰσθμοῦ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.6.3)]; φῶτας ἀπέστρεψεν Περσεφόνης θαλάμων [[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus] 156.4.)]
2 turn away or aside, divert, variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.80, etc.)]; ὕδατα cut off water from a besieged town, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 97.4; τὸν Κάϋστρον “SIG” 839.14 (from Ephesus))]; τὸν πόλεμον ἐς Μακεδονίαν[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 2.1.1)]; avert a danger, an evil, etc., πῆμ᾽ ἀ. νόσου[Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 850 (from Porson))]; prevent, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.136)]; rebut, δίκην[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 776(see. above); ἀ. τύχην μὴ οὐ γενέσθαι 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.15 codices; ἀ. εἰς τοὐναντίον τοὺς λόγους 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 239d; τὰς πράξεις εἰς τοὺς ἀντιδίκους 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica ad Alexandrum” 1442b6.)]
3 ἀ. τινά τινος dissuade from, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 1.12; τινὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ λήμματος 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 2.23; πότων ἀ. τοὺς στομάχους 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Demosthene” 15.)]
II as if intransitive (i.e. ἑαυτόν, ἵππον, ναῦν, etc.), turn back, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.65; ἀ. ὀπίσω 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.43; ἀ. πάλιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1403.)]
II.2 turn away or aside, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.87)]; of a river, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 4.52; τἀναντία ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.4.12.)]
B passive, to be turned back, ἀπεστράφθαι τοὺς ἐμβόλους, of ships, to have their beaks bent back, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.166)]; ἀποστραφῆναι.. τὼ πόδε to have one's feet twisted, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 279; τρίχες ἀπεστραμμέναι)]closecurled, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physiognomonica” 809b26.)]
B.II middle and passive, turn oneself from or away, ἀπεστραμμέναι ἀπ᾽ ἀλλήλων[Refs ([prev. author] “HA” 611a6; ἀπεστραμμένοι)]back to back, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus “Abhandlungen der Göttinger Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (Phil.-hist. Klasse)” 145.2: especially,)]
B.II.1 turn one's face away from, abandon, with accusative, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Phocylides Lyricus 2, 4th c.AD: Sallustius Philosophus 3; ἐχθροῦ ἀξίωσιν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 215; μή μ᾽ ἀποστραφῇς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1272; μή μ᾽ ἀποστρέφου 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 801, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 683, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.5.36, “PSI” [same place]; τὸ θεῖον ῥᾳδίως ἀπεστράφης 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 159: also with _genitive_, ἄψορρος οἴκων τῶνδ᾽ ἀποστραφείς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 431: with _dative_, ἀστεφανώτοισι ἀπυστρέφονται 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 78: _absolutely_, μὴ πρὸς θεῶν.. ἀποστραφῇς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 326)]; ἀπεστραμμένοι λόγοι hostile words, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.160; τὴν διάνοιαν ἀποστρέφεσθαι)]to be alienated, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ παρρησίας” p.80.)]
B.II.2 turn oneself about, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.25; ἅρματα ἀπεστραμμένα ὥσπερ εἰς φυγήν [prev. work] 6.2.17)]; ἀποστραφῆναι λυγιζόμενος escape by wriggling, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 405c.)]
B.II.3 ἀποστραφῆναί τινος fall off from one, desert him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.8.4.)]