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Lexicon :: Strong's G1994 - epistrephō

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ἐπιστρέφω
Transliteration
epistrephō (Key)
Pronunciation
ep-ee-stref'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
36x in 19 unique form(s) TR
39x in 21 unique form(s) LXX
441x in 66 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:722,1093

Strong’s Definitions

ἐπιστρέφω epistréphō, ep-ee-stref'-o; from G1909 and G4762; to revert (literally, figuratively or morally):—come (go) again, convert, (re-)turn (about, again).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x

The KJV translates Strong's G1994 in the following manner: turn (16x), be converted (6x), return (6x), turn about (4x), turn again (3x), miscellaneous (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 39x
The KJV translates Strong's G1994 in the following manner: turn (16x), be converted (6x), return (6x), turn about (4x), turn again (3x), miscellaneous (4x).

  1. transitively

    1. to turn to

      1. to the worship of the true God

    2. to cause to return, to bring back

      1. to the love and obedience of God

      2. to the love for the children

      3. to love wisdom and righteousness

  2. intransitively

    1. to turn to one's self

    2. to turn one's self about, turn back

    3. to return, turn back, come back

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐπιστρέφω epistréphō, ep-ee-stref'-o; from G1909 and G4762; to revert (literally, figuratively or morally):—come (go) again, convert, (re-)turn (about, again).
STRONGS G1994:
ἐπιστρέφω; future ἐπιστρέψω; 1 aorist ἐπέστρεψα; 2 aorist passive ἐπεστραφην; from Homer down; the Sept. for הָפַך, סָבַב and הֵסֵב, פָּנָה, and times without number for שׁוּב and הֵשִׁיב;
1. transitively,
a. to turn to: ἐπί τόν Θεόν, to the worship of the true God, Acts 26:20.
b. to cause to return, to bring back; figuratively, τινα ἐπί κύριον τόν Θεόν, to the love and obedience of God, Luke 1:16; ἐπί τέκνα, to love for the children, Luke 1:17; ἐν φρονήσει δικαίων, that they may be in (R. V. to walk in) the wisdom of the righteous, Luke 1:17; τινα ἐπί τινα, supply from the context ἐπί τήν ἀλήθειαν and ἐπί τήν ὁδόν, James 5:19f.
2. intransitive, (Winers Grammar, § 38, 1 (compare p. 26; Buttmann, 144 (126f)));
a. to turn, to turn oneself: ἐπί τόν κύριον and ἐπί τόν Θεόν, of Gentiles passing over to the religion of Christ, Acts 9:35; Acts 11:21; Acts 14:15; Acts 15:19; Acts 26:20, cf. 1 Peter 2:25; πρός τί, Acts 9:40; πρός τόν Θεόν, 1 Thessalonians 1:9; 2 Corinthians 3:16; ἀπό τίνος εἰς τί, Acts 26:18.
b. to turn oneself about, turn back: absolutely, Acts 16:18; followed by an infinitive expressing purpose, Revelation 1:12.
c. to return, turn back, come back;
α. properly: Luke 2:20 Rec.; Luke 8:55; Acts 15:36; with the addition of ὀπίσω (as in Aelian v. h. 1, 6 (variant)), followed by an infinitive of purpose, Matthew 24:18: followed by εἰς with the accusative of place, Matthew 12:44; (Luke 2:39 T WH Tr marginal reading); εἰς τά ὀπίσω, Mark 13:16; Luke 17:31; ἐπί τί, to, 2 Peter 2:22.
β. metaphorically: ἐπί τί, Galatians 4:9; ἐπί τινα, Luke 17:4 Rec., but G omits ἐπί σε; πρός τινα, ibid. L T Tr WH; ἐκ τῆς ἐντολῆς, to leave the commandment and turn back to a worse mental and moral condition, 2 Peter 2:21 R G; absolutely, to turn back morally, to reform: Matthew 13:15; Mark 4:12; Luke 22:32; Acts 3:19; Acts 28:27.
In the middle and 2 aorist passive
a. to turn oneself about, to turn around: absolutely, Matthew 9:22 R G; Mark 5:30; Mark 8:33; John 21:20.
b. to return: followed by πρός (WH text ἐπί) τινα, Matthew 10:13 (on which passage see εἰρήνη, 3 at the end); ἐπί τόν Θεόν, 1 Peter 2:25 (see 2 a. above); to return to a better mind, repent, John 12:40 (R G).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
9:22; 10:13; 12:44; 13:15; 24:18
Mark
4:12; 5:30; 8:33; 13:16
Luke
1:16; 1:17; 1:17; 2:20; 2:39; 8:55; 17:4; 17:31; 22:32
John
12:40; 21:20
Acts
3:19; 9:35; 9:40; 11:21; 14:15; 15:19; 15:36; 16:18; 26:18; 26:20; 26:20; 28:27
2 Corinthians
3:16
Galatians
4:9
1 Thessalonians
1:9
James
5:19
1 Peter
2:25; 2:25
2 Peter
2:21; 2:22
Revelation
1:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1994 matches the Greek ἐπιστρέφω (epistrephō),
which occurs 441 times in 403 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 9 (Gen 8:12–Rth 1:11)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:12 - And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him again any more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - And they made a covenant at the well of the oath. And there rose up Abimelech, Ochozath his friend, and Phichol the commander-in-chief of his army, and they returned to the land of the Phylistines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:49

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:49 - If then ye will deal mercifully and justly with my lord, tell me, and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand or to the left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:13 - And they rent their garments, and laid each man his sack on his ass, and returned to the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:20 - And Moses took his wife and his children, and mounted them on the beasts, and returned to Egypt; and Moses took the rod which he had from God in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:22 - And Moses turned to the Lord, and said, I pray, Lord, why hast thou afflicted this people? and wherefore hast thou sent me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:23 - And Pharao turned and entered into his house, nor did he fix his attention even on this thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:10 - And when Aaron spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they turned toward the wilderness, then the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:31 - And Moses called them, and Aaron and all the rulers of the synagogue turned towards him, and Moses spoke to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:36 - (LXX 10:35) And in the resting he said, Turn again, O Lord, the thousands and tens of thousands in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - But Amalec and the Chananite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn and depart for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:50 - (LXX 17:15) And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tabernacle of witness, and the plague ceased.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:33 - And having returned, they went up the road that leads to Basan; and Og the king of Basan went forth to meet them, and all his people to war to Edrain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:5 - And God put a word into the mouth of Balaam, and said, Thou shalt return to Balac, and thus shalt thou speak.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - Turn ye and depart and enter into the mountain of the Amorites, and go to all that dwell near about Araba, to the mountain and the plain and to the south, and the land of the Chananites near the sea, and Antilibanus, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:24 - And they turned and went up to the mountain, and they came as far as the valley of the cluster, and surveyed it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40 - And ye turned and marched into the wilderness, in the way by the Red Sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1 - And we turned and departed into the wilderness, by the way of the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and we compassed mount Seir many days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:3 - [fn]Ye have compassed this mount long enough; turn therefore toward the north.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8 - And we passed by our brethren the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, by the way of Araba from Ælon and from Gesion Gaber; and we turned and passed by the way of the desert of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:1 - And we turned and went by the way leading to Basan; and Og the king of Basan came out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle at Edraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:30 - And [fn]all these things shall come upon thee in the last days, and thou shalt turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt hearken to his voice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:39

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:39 - And thou shalt know this day, and shalt consider in thine heart, that the Lord thy God he is God in heaven above, and on the earth beneath, and there is none else but he.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:15 - And I turned and went down from the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to heaven; and the two tables of the testimonies were [fn]in my two hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:5 - And I turned and came down from the mountain, and I put the tables into the ark which I had made; and there they were, as the Lord commanded me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:60

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:60 - And he shall bring upon thee all the evil pain of Egypt, [fn]of which thou wast afraid, and they shall cleave to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:2 - and shalt return to the Lord thy God, and shalt hearken to his voice, according to all things which I charge thee this day, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:8 - And thou shalt return and hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and shall keep his commands, all that I charge thee this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:9 - And the Lord thy God shall bless thee in every work of thine hands, in the offspring of thy [fn]body, and in the offspring of thy cattle, and in the fruits of thy land, because the Lord thy God will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:10 - if thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments, and his ordinances, and his judgments written in the book of this law, if thou turn to the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:18 - And I will surely turn away my face from them in that day, because of all their evil doings which they have done, because they turned aside after strange gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:20 - For I will bring them into the good land, which I sware to their fathers, to give to them a land flowing with milk and honey: and they shall eat and be filled and satisfy themselves; then will they turn aside after other gods, and serve them, and they will provoke me, and break my covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:12 - And the children of Israel will not be able to stand before their enemies; they will turn their [fn]back before their enemies, for they have become an accursed thing: I will not any longer be with you, unless ye remove the cursed thing from yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:27 - And it will return [fn]westward from Bæthegeneth, and will join Zabulon and Ekgai, and Phthæel northwards, and the borders will come to Saphthæbæthme, and Inael, and will go on to Chobamasomel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:34 - And the coasts will return westward by Athabor, and will go out thence to Jacana, and will border on Zabulon southward, and Aser will join it westward, and Jordan eastward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:18 - depart not hence until I come to thee, and I will bring forth an offering and offer it before thee: and he said, I will remain until thou return.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 - And it came to pass when Gedeon heard the account of the dream and the interpretation of it, that he worshipped the Lord, and returned to the camp of Israel, and said, Rise, for the Lord has delivered the camp of Madiam into our hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:9 - And Gedeon said to the men of Phanuel, When I return in peace, I will [fn]break down this tower.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:57

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:57 - And all the wickedness of the men of Sychem God requited upon their head; and the curse of Joatham the son of Jerobaal came upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9 - And Jephthae said to the elders of Galaad, If ye turn me back to fight with the children of Ammon, and the Lord should deliver them before me, then will I be your head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - And the king of the children of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthae, Because Israel took my land when he went up out of Egypt, from Arnon to Jaboc, and to Jordan: now then return them peaceably and I will depart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:31 - then it shall come to pass that whosoever shall first come out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, he shall be the Lord's: I will offer him up for a whole-burnt-offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:8 - And after [fn]some time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion; and behold, a swarm of bees, and honey were in the mouth of the lion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:19 - And God broke open a hollow place in the jaw, and there came thence water, and he drank; and his spirit returned and he revived: therefore the name of [fn]the fountain was called ‘The well of the invoker,’ which is in Lechi, until this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3 - And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I had wholly consecrated the money to the Lord out of my hand for my son, to make a graven and a molten image, and now I will restore it to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:21 - So they turned and departed, and put their children and their property and their baggage before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:23 - And the children of Dan turned their face, and said to Michaias, What is the matter with thee that thou hast cried out?

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:7 - And she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her: and they went by the way to return to the land of Juda.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:10 - And they said to her, We will return with thee to thy people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:11 - And Noemin said, Return now, my daughters; and why do ye go with me? have I yet sons in my womb to be your husbands?

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