ἈΠΟΣΤΡΟΦΗ, ἀποστροφη
APOSTROPHĒ, apostrophē
Sounds Like: ap-os-tro-FEE
Translations: turning away, turning back, turning, return, a turning away, a turning back
From the root: ΑΠΟΣΤΡΟΦΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the act of turning away from something or someone, or turning back to a place or state. It can describe a physical movement of returning or a metaphorical turning away from a path or belief. It is a compound word formed from 'ἀπό' (apo), meaning 'from' or 'away from', and 'στροφή' (strophē), meaning 'a turning'.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G652 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 5 — 8:278
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 11:9
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 74:4
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 3:16, 4:7
- Deuteronomy — 22:1, 31:18
- 1 Samuel — 7:17
- 3 Maccabees — 2:10
- Sirach — 16:30, 18:24
- Ezekiel — 33:11
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΠΟΣΤΡΟΦΗ.
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.
- ἈΠΟΣΤΡΟΦΩΝ — of turning away, of turning back, of apostasy, of rejection
- ΑΠΟΣΡΟΦΗ — aversion, turning away, turning back, a turning away
- ΑΠΟΣΤΡΟΦΑΙΣ — (to) turnings away, (to) rejections, (to) apostasies, (to) desertions
- ΑΠΟΣΤΡΟΦΗ — aversion, turning away, turning back, turning aside, rejection
- ΑΠΟΣΤΡΟΦΗΝ — turning away, a turning away, aversion, aversion (to), turning back, a turning back
- ΑΠΟΣΤΡΟΦΗΣ — of turning away, of aversion, of turning back, of apostasy
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