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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
442x 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 442 times in 404 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 9 (Gen 8:12–Rth 1:11)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:12 - Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:49 - Now then, if you are going to show steadfast love and faithfulness to my master, 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 - Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:20 - So Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:22 - Then Moses turned to the LORD and said, “O Lord, why have you done evil to this people? Why did you ever send me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:23 - Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:10 - And as soon as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:31 - But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:36 - And when it rested, he said, “Return, O LORD, to the ten thousand thousands of Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:25 - Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:50 - And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, when the plague was stopped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:33 - Then they turned and went up by the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:5 - And the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:24 - And they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:40

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:40 - But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:1 - “Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, as the LORD told me. And for many days we traveled around Mount Seir.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:3 - ‘You have been traveling around this mountain country long enough. Turn northward

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:8 - So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. “And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:1 - “Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:30 - When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey his voice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:39

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:39 - know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:15 - So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:5 - Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark that I had made. And there they are, as the LORD commanded me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:60

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:60 - And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:2 - and return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:8 - And you shall again obey the voice of the LORD and keep all his commandments that I command you today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:9 - The LORD your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the LORD will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:10 - when you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:18 - And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because they have turned to other gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:20 - For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:12 - Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction.[fn] I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:27 - then it turns eastward, it goes to Beth-dagon, and touches Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtahel northward to Beth-emek and Neiel. Then it continues in the north to Cabul,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:34 - Then the boundary turns westward to Aznoth-tabor and goes from there to Hukkok, touching Zebulun at the south and Asher on the west and Judah on the east at the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:18 - Please do not depart from here until I come to you and bring out my present and set it before you.” And he said, “I will stay till you return.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 - As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped. And he returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the LORD has given the host of Midian into your hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:9 - And he said to the men of Penuel, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:57

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:57 - And God also made all the evil of the men of Shechem return on their heads, and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9 - Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight against the Ammonites, and the LORD gives them over to me, I will be your head.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel on coming up from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:31 - then whatever[fn] comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the LORD’s, and I will offer it[fn] up for a burnt offering.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:8 - After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:19 - And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out from it. And when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore;[fn] it is at Lehi to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3 - And he restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, “I dedicate the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a metal image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:21 - So they turned and departed, putting the little ones and the livestock and the goods in front of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:23 - And they shouted to the people of Dan, who turned around and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you, that you come with such a company?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:7 - So she set out from the place where she was with her two daughters-in-law, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:10 - And they said to her, “No, we will return with you to your people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:11 - But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your husbands?

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