ΜΕΤΕΣΤΡΑΦΗ, μετεστραφη
METESTRAPHĒ, metestraphē
Sounds Like: meh-teh-strah-FEE
Translations: was turned, was changed, was transformed, was perverted
From the root: ΜΕΤΑΣΤΡΕΦΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the aorist, indicative, passive, third person singular form of the verb ΜΕΤΑΣΤΡΕΦΩ (METASTREPHO). It is a compound word formed from ΜΕΤΑ (META), meaning 'with' or 'after' (indicating change), and ΣΤΡΕΦΩ (STREPHO), meaning 'to turn'. Therefore, it means 'it was turned around', 'it was changed', 'it was transformed', or 'it was perverted'. It describes something that underwent a significant alteration or reversal.
Inflection: Aorist, Indicative, Passive, 3rd Person, Singular
Strong’s number: G3344 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- 1 Maccabees — 9:41
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 14:5
- 1 Maccabees — 9:41
- 3 Maccabees — 6:22
- Lamentations — 5:2
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 10:8
- Hosea — 11:8
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΕΤΑΣΤΡΕΦΩ.
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.
- ΜΕΤΑΣΤΡΑΦΗΣΕΤΑΙ — will be turned, will be changed, will be transformed, will be converted
- ΜΕΤΑΣΤΡΑΦΗΣΟΝΤΑΙ — they will be turned, they will be changed, they will be transformed, they will be perverted
- ΜΕΤΑΣΤΡΑΦΗΤΩ — let it be turned, let it be changed, let it be perverted, let it be transformed
- ΜΕΤΑΣΤΡΕΦΕΙ — turns, changes, transforms, perverts
- ΜΕΤΑΣΤΡΕΦΟΜΕΝΟΣ — turning, being turned, turning oneself, changing, being changed, perverting, being perverted
- ΜΕΤΑΣΤΡΕΦΩ — turn, change, transform, pervert, alter, convert
- ΜΕΤΑΣΤΡΕΦΩΝ — turning around, changing, perverting, transforming
- ΜΕΤΑΣΤΡΕΨΑΙ — to turn, to change, to pervert, to transform, to alter
- ΜΕΤΑΣΤΡΕΨΩ — I will turn, I will change, I will convert, I will pervert
- ΜΕΤΑΣΤΡΨ? — to turn around, to change, to pervert, to transform, to alter
- ΜΕΤΑΣΤΡΨΩ — turn, change, transform, pervert, turn into, turn back
- ΜΕΤΕΣΤΡΑΦΗΣΑΝ — they were turned, they were changed, they were transformed, they were perverted
- ΜΕΤΕΣΤΡΕΨΕΝ — turned, changed, transformed, perverted, overturned
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