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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
1 Strong's Number: g4762 Greek: strepho

Turn:

denotes

(1) in the Active Voice,

(a) "to turn" (something), Mat 5:39;

(b) "to bring back," Mat 27:3 (in the best texts; some have No. 2);

(c) reflexively, "to turn oneself, to turn the back to people," said of God, Act 7:42;

(d) "to turn one thing into another," Rev 11:6 (the only place where this word occurs after the Acts);

(2) in the Passive Voice,

(a) used reflexively, "to turn oneself," e.g. Mat 7:6; Jhn 20:14, 16;

(b) metaphorically, Mat 18:3, RV, "(except) ye turn" (AV, "... be converted"); Jhn 12:40 (in the best texts; some have No. 4).
See CONVERT, A, No. 1.

2 Strong's Number: g654 Greek: apostrepho

Turn:

denotes

(a) "to cause to turn away (apo), to remove," Rom 11:26; 2Ti 4:4 (1st clause); metaphorically, "to turn away from allegiance, pervert," Luk 23:14;

(b) "to make to return, put back," Mat 26:52;

(c) in the Passive Voice, used reflexively, "to turn onself away from," Mat 5:42; 2Ti 1:15; Tts 1:14; Hbr 12:25; in the Active Voice, Act 3:26.
See PERVERT, PUT.

3 Strong's Number: g1294 Greek: diastrepho

Turn:

"to distort" (dia, "asunder"), is rendered "to turn aside," RV (AV, "... away"), in Act 13:8.
See PERVERT, No. 2.

4 Strong's Number: g1994 Greek: epistrepho

Turn:

is used

(a) transitively, "to make to turn towards" (epi) Luk 1:16, 17; Jam 5:19, 20 (to convert);

(b) intransitively, "to turn oneself round," e.g., in the Passive Voice, Mar 5:30 (see RETURN); in the Active Voice, Mat 13:15, RV, "turn again" (AV, "be converted"); Act 11:21; 14:15; 15:19; 1Th 1:9, "ye turned," the aorist tense indicating an immediate and decisive change, consequent upon a deliberate choice; conversion is a voluntary act in response to the presentation of truth.
See CONVERT.

5 Strong's Number: g3344 Greek: metastrepho

Turn:

signifies, in the Passive Voice, "to be turned" (of a change into something different, meta) in Act 2:20; Jam 4:9: see PERVERT, No. 3.

6 Strong's Number: g5290 Greek: hupostrepho

Turn:

is used intransitively of "turning back, behind" (hupo), e.g., Luk 17:15, "turned back;" in Luk 2:45, RV, "returned:" see RETURN.

7 Strong's Number: g576 Greek: apobaino

Turn:

"to go from," is used metaphorically of events, "to issue, turn out," Luk 21:13; Phl 1:19.
See GO, No. 21.

8 Strong's Number: g3329 Greek: metago

Turn:

"to move from one side to another," is rendered "to turn about" in Jam 3:3, 4.

9 Strong's Number: g3346 Greek: metatithemi

Turn:

"to change," is translated "turning (the grace of God)" in Jud 1:4.
See CARRY, CHANGE, REMOVE, TRANSLATE.

10 Strong's Number: g344 Greek: anakampto

Turn:

ana, "back," kampto, "to bend," is rendered "shall turn... again," in Luk 10:6.
See RETURN.

11 Strong's Number: g1624 Greek: ektrepo

Turn:

"to cause to turn aside" (ek, "from," trepo, "to turn"), is used in the Passive Voice, with Middle sense, in 1Ti 1:6; 5:15; 6:20, RV, "turning away" (AV, "avoiding"); 2Ti 4:4 (2nd clause); Hbr 12:13, "be (not) turned out of the way" (RV, marg., "put out of joint"); some adhere to the meaning "to turn aside, go astray;" the interpretation depends on the antithesis which follows, "but rather be healed" (RV), which is not the antithesis to "turning aside" or being "turned" out of the way; accordingly the marg. is to be preferred (the verb is often used medically). In the Sept., Amo 5:8.

12 Strong's Number: g665 Greek: apotrepo

Turn:

"to cause to turn away" (apo), is used in the Middle Voice in 2Ti 3:5.

13 Strong's Number: g4062 Greek: peritrepo

Turn:

"to turn about" (peri), is rendered "doth turn (thee to madness)" in Act 26:24, RV, AV, "doth make (thee mad)."

14 Strong's Number: g3179 Greek: methistemi

Turn:

is used metaphorically in Act 19:26, "turned away (much people)."
See PUT, REMOVE, TRANSLATE.

15 Strong's Number: g387 Greek: anastatoo

Turn:

"to stir up, excite, unsettle" (ana, "up," histemi, "to cause to stand"), is rendered "have turned (the world) upside down" in Act 17:6.
See TROUBLE, UPROAR.

16 Strong's Number: g1096 Greek: ginomai

Turn:

"to become," is rendered "shall be turned" in Jhn 16:20 (of sorrow into joy).

17 Strong's Number: g1578 Greek: ekklino

Turn:

"to turn aside" (ek, "from," klino, "to lean"), is rendered "have... turned aside" in Rom 3:12 (AV, "are... gone out of the way"); Rom 16:17, RV, "turn away" (AV, "avoid"); 1Pe 3:11; RV, ditto (AV, "eschew").

18 Strong's Number: g1237 Greek: diadechomai

Turn:

"to receive through another, to receive in turn" (dia, "through," dechomai, "to receive"), occurs in Act 7:45, RV, "in their turn... when they entered" (AV, "that came after"); the meaning here is "having received (it) after," i.e., as from Moses under Joshua's leadership. In the papyri the word is used similarily of visiting as deputy (see also Field, Notes on the Trans. of the NT, 116).

Notes:

(1) In Mat 2:22, AV, anachoero, "to retire, withdraw," is rendered "turned aside" (RV, "withdrew").

(2) For "turned to flight," klino, Hbr 11:34, see FLIGHT, B.

(3) For the phrase "by turn" in 1Cr 14:27 see COURSE, B, Note (3).

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