ἈΠΟΣΤΡΕΦΩΝ, ἀποστρεφων
APOSTREPHŌN, apostrephōn
Sounds Like: ah-pos-TREH-fon
Translations: turning away, turning back, turning aside, averting, perverting, returning, restoring
From the root: APOSTREPHO
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word describes the action of turning something or someone away from a particular direction or course. It can imply a physical turning, a moral turning (such as perverting justice), or a returning action. It is often used to describe someone who turns their face away in disapproval or rejection, or to describe a turning back to a previous state or location.
Inflection: Present Active Participle, Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong’s number: G0654 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, APOSTREPHO.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΠΟΣΤΡΕΨΕΙ — will turn away, will turn back, will return, will avert, will cause to return
- ΑΠΕΣΤΡΕΨΑ — I turned away, I turned back, I averted, I returned, I perverted, I rejected
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