Strong G1995ἐπιστροφή
conversion
- Transliteration
- epistrophē
- Pronunciation
- ep-is-trof-ay'
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
From G1994; reversion that is moral revolution: - conversion.
Detailed definition
ἐπι-στροφή, -ῆς, ἡ
(ἐπιστρέφω) [in LXX: Eze.47:7 (שׁוּב), Sir.18:21 49:2, etc.;]
a turning about; metaphorically, conversion (Field, Notes, 246): Act.15:3.†
(AS)
(ἐπιστρέφω) [in LXX: Eze.47:7 (שׁוּב), Sir.18:21 49:2, etc.;]
a turning about; metaphorically, conversion (Field, Notes, 246): Act.15:3.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G1995 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- conversion1
First verses
- Acts 15:3And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἐπιστροφ-ή,ἡ,
turning about, τῆς τοῦ ἀτράκτου δίνης [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 620e)]; twisting, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.13.3)]; of strands, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 58.15; τῶν σχοινίων 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 25 (_plural_); ἡ εἴσω ἐ. τῶν δακτύλων 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 1.23.)]
2. bending of a bow, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.5.22.)]
3. curve, winding of a bay, [Refs ([prev. work] 33)]; of a river, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus “Alm.” 8.1.)]
II. intransitive, turning or wheeling about, δαΐων ἀνδρῶν ἐπιστροφαί, i.e. hostile men turning to bay, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1045 (Lyric poetry))]; tossing, of a restless patient, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 7.83 (_plural_))]; μυρίων ἐπιστροφαὶ κακῶν renewed assaults of ills unnumbered, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 537 (Lyric poetry), compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 7.17.5; especiallyin military evolutions, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.23.3, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 7)]; wheeling through a right angle, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 10.4, etc. (but, as a general term, αἱ ἐ. τῶν ἵππων [prev. work]7.2,compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Tactica” 16.7))]; of ships, putting about, tacking, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.90, 91)]; ἐξ ἐπιστροφῆς by a sudden wheel, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.76.5, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Timoleon” 27)]; but ἐξ ἐπιστροφῆς παθεῖν to have a relapse, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 251.)]
II.2. turn of affairs, reaction, counter-revolution, μή τις ἐ. γένηται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.71)]; result, end, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 21.32.15 (uncertain reading).)]
II.3. attention paid to a person or thing (ἐπιστρέφω [Refs (11.3), ξενοτίμους δωμάτων ἐ)]. respect for guests, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 548)]; πρὸ τοῦ θανόντος τήνδ᾽ ἔθεσθ᾽ ἐ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 134)]; ὧν ἐ. τις ἦν to whom any regard was due, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 671)]; so ἐπιστροφῆς ἄξιον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.2.9; παραμυθέεσθαι μετ᾽ ἐπιστροφῆς καὶ ὑποδέξιος 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ εὐσχημοσύνης” 16)]; ἐ. ποιεῖσθαι Philipp. cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 12.1, compare 19.306, etc.)]; ἐ. ἔχειν τινός [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 836; περί τινος 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 3.187, etc.)]; ἐπιστροφῆς τυγχάνειν [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.4.4, etc.)]
II.3.b. Philos., turning towards, πρὸς τὰ τῇδε [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.3.4)]; ψυχὴ καταδεῖται πρὸς τὸ σῶμα τῇ ἐ. τῇ πρὸς τὰ πάθη τὰ ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “Sententiae ad intelligibilia ducentes” 7.)]
II.4. moving up and down in a place, mostly in plural, πατρῴων δωμάτων ἐπιστροφαί the range of them, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 648)]; οἷσιν οὐκ ἐπιστροφαί men who have no business here, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 440)]; βούνομοι ἐ. haunts of the grazing herds, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 249; so Κίλιξ δὲ χώρα καὶ Σύρων ἐπιστροφαί (conjecture for Σηρῶν ἐνστροφαί) [prev. work] 271.)]
II.5 intentness, vehemence, ἐπιστροφὴν εἶχεν ὁ λόγος καὶ ἔρρωτο [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 1.21.5; θρασυτέρᾳ τῇ ἐ. χρήσασθαι [prev. work] 2.5.2.)]
II.5.b gravity of deportment, ἡ ἐ. τοῦ εἴδους [Refs ([prev. author] “Im.” 2.16.)]
II.6 correction, reproof, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.55b.)]
II.7 conversion, [NT+5th c.AD+ (NT.Acts.15.3; ἡ πρὸς θεὸν ἐ. 5th c.AD: Hierocles Platonicus Philosophus “in Carmen Aureum - FPG” 24p.473M.)]
II.8 in Philos., return to the source of Being, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 1.2.4; ἡ ἐ. πρὸς αὑτόν [prev. author] 5.3.6, compare 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 31)]; [ἡ ἐ.] τοῦ προελθόντος ἐπάνοδος εἰς τὸ γεννῆσαν [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 75; ἡ ἐ. τῆς ἐκστάσεώς ἐστιν ἐπανόρθωσις [prev. work] 61.)]
II.9 in Logic, conversion of a proposition, ἡ σὺν ἀντιθέσει ἐ. the contraposition, Suppl.ad [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in Platonis Parmenidem commentarii” p.1004S.)]
turning about, τῆς τοῦ ἀτράκτου δίνης [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 620e)]; twisting, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.13.3)]; of strands, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 58.15; τῶν σχοινίων 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 25 (_plural_); ἡ εἴσω ἐ. τῶν δακτύλων 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 1.23.)]
2. bending of a bow, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 2.5.22.)]
3. curve, winding of a bay, [Refs ([prev. work] 33)]; of a river, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus “Alm.” 8.1.)]
II. intransitive, turning or wheeling about, δαΐων ἀνδρῶν ἐπιστροφαί, i.e. hostile men turning to bay, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1045 (Lyric poetry))]; tossing, of a restless patient, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 7.83 (_plural_))]; μυρίων ἐπιστροφαὶ κακῶν renewed assaults of ills unnumbered, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 537 (Lyric poetry), compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 7.17.5; especiallyin military evolutions, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.23.3, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 7)]; wheeling through a right angle, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 10.4, etc. (but, as a general term, αἱ ἐ. τῶν ἵππων [prev. work]7.2,compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Tactica” 16.7))]; of ships, putting about, tacking, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.90, 91)]; ἐξ ἐπιστροφῆς by a sudden wheel, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.76.5, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Timoleon” 27)]; but ἐξ ἐπιστροφῆς παθεῖν to have a relapse, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 251.)]
II.2. turn of affairs, reaction, counter-revolution, μή τις ἐ. γένηται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.71)]; result, end, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 21.32.15 (uncertain reading).)]
II.3. attention paid to a person or thing (ἐπιστρέφω [Refs (11.3), ξενοτίμους δωμάτων ἐ)]. respect for guests, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 548)]; πρὸ τοῦ θανόντος τήνδ᾽ ἔθεσθ᾽ ἐ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 134)]; ὧν ἐ. τις ἦν to whom any regard was due, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 671)]; so ἐπιστροφῆς ἄξιον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.2.9; παραμυθέεσθαι μετ᾽ ἐπιστροφῆς καὶ ὑποδέξιος 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ εὐσχημοσύνης” 16)]; ἐ. ποιεῖσθαι Philipp. cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 12.1, compare 19.306, etc.)]; ἐ. ἔχειν τινός [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 836; περί τινος 3rd c.BC: Chrysippus Stoicus 3.187, etc.)]; ἐπιστροφῆς τυγχάνειν [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.4.4, etc.)]
II.3.b. Philos., turning towards, πρὸς τὰ τῇδε [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.3.4)]; ψυχὴ καταδεῖται πρὸς τὸ σῶμα τῇ ἐ. τῇ πρὸς τὰ πάθη τὰ ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “Sententiae ad intelligibilia ducentes” 7.)]
II.4. moving up and down in a place, mostly in plural, πατρῴων δωμάτων ἐπιστροφαί the range of them, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 648)]; οἷσιν οὐκ ἐπιστροφαί men who have no business here, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 440)]; βούνομοι ἐ. haunts of the grazing herds, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 249; so Κίλιξ δὲ χώρα καὶ Σύρων ἐπιστροφαί (conjecture for Σηρῶν ἐνστροφαί) [prev. work] 271.)]
II.5 intentness, vehemence, ἐπιστροφὴν εἶχεν ὁ λόγος καὶ ἔρρωτο [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 1.21.5; θρασυτέρᾳ τῇ ἐ. χρήσασθαι [prev. work] 2.5.2.)]
II.5.b gravity of deportment, ἡ ἐ. τοῦ εἴδους [Refs ([prev. author] “Im.” 2.16.)]
II.6 correction, reproof, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.55b.)]
II.7 conversion, [NT+5th c.AD+ (NT.Acts.15.3; ἡ πρὸς θεὸν ἐ. 5th c.AD: Hierocles Platonicus Philosophus “in Carmen Aureum - FPG” 24p.473M.)]
II.8 in Philos., return to the source of Being, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 1.2.4; ἡ ἐ. πρὸς αὑτόν [prev. author] 5.3.6, compare 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 31)]; [ἡ ἐ.] τοῦ προελθόντος ἐπάνοδος εἰς τὸ γεννῆσαν [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 75; ἡ ἐ. τῆς ἐκστάσεώς ἐστιν ἐπανόρθωσις [prev. work] 61.)]
II.9 in Logic, conversion of a proposition, ἡ σὺν ἀντιθέσει ἐ. the contraposition, Suppl.ad [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in Platonis Parmenidem commentarii” p.1004S.)]