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Lexicon :: Strong's G1294 - diastrephō

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διαστρέφω
Transliteration
diastrephō (Key)
Pronunciation
dee-as-tref'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:717,1093

Strong’s Definitions

διαστρέφω diastréphō, dee-as-tref'-o; from G1223 and G4762; to distort, i.e. (figuratively) misinterpret, or (morally) corrupt:—perverse(-rt), turn away.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G1294 in the following manner: perverse (4x), pervert (2x), turn away (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G1294 in the following manner: perverse (4x), pervert (2x), turn away (1x).

  1. to distort, turn aside

    1. to oppose, plot against the saving purposes and plans of God

  2. to turn aside from the right path, to pervert, corrupt

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
διαστρέφω diastréphō, dee-as-tref'-o; from G1223 and G4762; to distort, i.e. (figuratively) misinterpret, or (morally) corrupt:—perverse(-rt), turn away.
STRONGS G1294:
διαστρέφω; 1 aorist infinitive διαστρέψαι; perfect passive participle διεστραμμένος [cf. WHs Appendix, p. 170f]; from Aeschylus down;
a. to distort, turn aside: τὰς ὁδοὺς κυρίου τὰς εὐθείας, figuratively (Proverbs 10:10), to oppose, plot against, the saving purposes and plans of God, Acts 13:10. Hence,
b. to turn aside from the right path, to pervert, corrupt: τὸ ἔθνος, Luke 23:2 (Polybius 5, 41, 1; 8, 24, 3); τινὰ ἀπό τινος, to corrupt and so turn one aside from, etc. Acts 13:8, (Exodus 5:4; voluptates animum detorquent a virtute, Cicero); διεστραμμένος, perverse, corrupt, wicked: Matthew 17:17; Luke 9:41; Acts 20:30; Philippians 2:15.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
5:4
Proverbs
10:10
Matthew
17:17
Luke
9:41; 23:2
Acts
13:8; 13:10; 20:30
Philippians
2:15

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1294 matches the Greek διαστρέφω (diastrephō),
which occurs 27 times in 24 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:4 - And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do ye, Moses and Aaron, turn the people from their works? depart each of you to your works.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:6 - Thou shalt not wrest the sentence of the poor in his judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:39 - And it shall be on your fringes, and ye shall look on them, and ye shall remember all the commands of the Lord, and do them: and ye shall not turn back after your imaginations, and after the sight of your eyes in the things after which ye go a whoring;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:7 - And why do ye pervert the minds of the children of Israel, that they should not cross over into the land, which the Lord gives them?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:5 - They have sinned, not pleasing him; spotted children, a froward and perverse generation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:6 - In the days of Samegar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, they deserted the ways, and went in by-ways; they went in crooked paths.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:17 - And it came to pass when Achaab saw Eliu, that Achaab said to Eliu, Art thou he that perverts Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:18 - And Eliu said, I do not pervert Israel; but it is thou and thy father's house, in that ye forsake the Lord your God, and thou hast gone after Baalim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:12 - And he will carry round the encircling clouds by his governance, to perform their works: whatsoever he shall command them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:26 - (LXX 17:27) And with the excellent man thou wilt be excellent; and with the perverse thou wilt shew frowardness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:14 - His perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:13 - The fear of the Lord hates unrighteousness, and insolence, and pride, and the ways of wicked men; and I hate the perverse ways of bad men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:9 - He that walks simply, walks confidently; but he that perverts his ways shall be known.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:20 - Perverse ways are an abomination to the Lord: but all they that are blameless in their ways are acceptable to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:30 - And the man that fixes his eyes devises perverse things, and marks out with his lips all evils: he is a furnace of wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:15 - That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and deficiency cannot be numbered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:13 - Behold the works of God: for who shall be able to straighten him whom God has made crooked?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:3 - in the day wherein the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the mighty men shall become bent, and the grinding women cease because they have become few, and the women looking out at the windows be dark;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:8 - and the way of peace they know not, neither is there judgment in their ways; for their paths by which they go are crooked, and they know not peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:18 - And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord, Woe to the women that sew pillows under every elbow, and make kerchiefs on the head of every stature to pervert souls! The souls of my people are perverted, and they have saved souls alive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:22 - Because ye have perverted the heart of the righteous, whereas I perverted him not, and that in order to strengthen the hands of the wicked, that he should not at all turn from his evil way and live:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:34 - And there has happened in thee perverseness in thy fornication beyond other women, and they have committed fornication with thee, in that thou givest hires over and above, and hires were not given to thee; and thus perverseness happened in thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 3:9 - Hear now these words, ye chiefs of the house of Jacob, and the remnant of the house of Israel, who hate judgment, and pervert all righteousness;

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:4 - Therefore the law is frustrated, and judgment proceeds not effectually, for the ungodly man prevails over the just; therefore perverse judgment will proceed.
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