Lexical Summary strephō: to turn, to change Original Word: στρέφωTransliteration: strephō Phonetic Spelling: (stref'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to turn, to change Meaning: to turn, to change Strong's Concordance turn, convertStrengthened from the base of trope; to twist, i.e. Turn quite around or reverse (literally or figuratively) -- convert, turn (again, back again, self, self about). see GREEK trope Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4762: στρέφωστρέφω: 1 aorist ἐστρεψα; passive, present στρέφομαι; 2 aorist ἐστράφην; from Homer down; the Sept. for הָפַך, also for שָׂבַב, etc.; to turn, turn round: τί τίνι, to turn a thing to one, Matthew 5:39, and T Tr WH in Matthew 27:3 (for ἀποστρέφω, to bring back; see ἀποστρέφω, 2); reflexively (Winers Grammar, § 38, 1; Buttmann, § 130, 4), to turn oneself (i. e. to turn the back to one; used of one who no longer cares for another), Acts 7:42 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 469 (437)); τί εἰς τί, equivalent to μεταστρέφω, to turn one thing into another, Revelation 11:6. Passive reflexively, to turn oneself: στραφείς followed by a finite verb, having turned etc., Matthew 7:6; ( |
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