Strong's Lexicon
G390 — ἀναστρέφω
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G390 |
|---|---|
| Word: | ἀναστρέφω |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | from G303 and G4762 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 9 |
| Transliteration: | anastrepho |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | an-as-tref'-o |
| Meaning: | 1. to overturn 2. also, to return 3. (by implication) to busy oneself, i.e. remain, live |
| KJV Renderings: | abide, behave self, have conversation, live, overthrow, pass, return, be used |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀναστρέφω: future ἀναστρέψω; (1 aorist ἀνέστρεψα; passive, present ἀναστρέφομαι); 2 aorist ἀνεστραφην;
1. to turn upside down, overturn: τάς τραπέζας, Joh 2:15, (δίφρους, Homer, Iliad 23, 436).
2. to turn back; intransitive, (Winers Grammar, 251 (236)] to returns, like the Latinreverto equivalent torevertor (as in Greek writings; in the Sept. equivalent to ùÑåÌá): Act 5:22; Act 15:16 (here ἀναστρεψα καί has not like the Hebrew ùÑåÌá the force of an adverb, again, but God in the Messiah’s advent returns to his people, whom he is conceived of as having previously abandoned; cf. Winer’s Grammar, 469 (437)).
3. to turn hither and thither; passive reflexively, to turn oneself about, sojourn, dwell, ἐν in a place;
a. literally: Mat 17:22, where L T WH Tr text συστρεφομένων, cf. Keim, ii., p. 581 (English translation, iv., p. 303). (Jos 5:5; Eze 19:6, and in Greek writings)
b. like the Hebrew äÈìÇê to walk, of the manner of life and moral character, to conduct oneself, behave oneself, live: 2Co 1:12 (ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ); 1Ti 3:15 (ἐν οἴκῳ θεοῦ); Eph 2:3 (ἐν οἷς among whom); 2Pe 2:18 (ἐν πλάνη). simply "to conduct or behave oneself, ’walk’," (German wandeln): 1Pe 1:17; Heb 10:33; (καλῶς) . (Cf. its use e. g. in Xenophon, an. 2, 5, 14; Polybius 1, 9, 7; 74, 13; 86, 5 etc. (see ἀναστροφή, at the end); Pro 20:7 the Sept.; Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 1, 21, 8 [ET]; etc.)
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Englishman's Greek Concordance
ἀναστρέφω (abide)
Matthew 17:22
- KJV: And while they abode in Galilee Jesus said unto them The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men
- GK: αναστρεφομένων δε αυτών εν τη Γαλιλαία είπεν αυτοίς ο Ιησούς μέλλει ο υιός του ανθρώπου παραδίδοσθαι εις χείρας ανθρώπων
John 2:15
- KJV: And when he had made a scourge of small cords he drove them all out of the temple and the sheep and the oxen and poured out the changers’ money and overthrew the tables
- GK: και ποιήσας φραγέλλιον εκ σχοινίων πάντας εξέβαλεν εκ του ιερού τα τε πρόβατα και τους βόας και των κολλυβιστών εξέχεε το κέρμα και τας τραπέζας ανέστρεψε
Acts 5:22
- KJV: But when the officers came and found them not in the prison they returned and told
- GK: οι δε υπηρέται παραγενόμενοι ουχ εύρον αυτούς εν τη φυλακή αναστρέψαντες δε απήγγειλαν
Acts 15:16
- KJV: After this I will return and will build again the tabernacle of David which is fallen down and I will build again the ruins thereof and I will set it up
- GK: μετά ταύτα αναστρέψω και ανοικοδομήσω την σκηνήν Δαβίδ την πεπτωκυίαν και τα κατεσκαμμένα αυτής ανοικοδομήσω και ανορθώσω αυτήν
2 Corinthians 1:12
- KJV: For our rejoicing is this the testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world and more abundantly to you-ward
- GK: η γαρ καύχησις ημών αύτη εστί το μαρτύριον της συνειδήσεως ημών ότι εν απλότητι και ειλικρινεία θεού ουκ εν σοφία σαρκική αλλ΄ εν χάριτι θεού ανεστράφημεν εν τω κόσμω περισσοτέρως δε προς υμάς
Ephesians 2:3
- KJV: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the children of wrath even as others
- GK: εν οις και ημείς πάντες ανεστράφημέν ποτε εν ταις επιθυμίαις της σαρκός ημών ποιούντες τα θελήματα της σαρκός και των διανοιών και ήμεν τέκνα φύσει οργής ως και οι λοιποί
1 Timothy 3:15
- KJV: But if I tarry long that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God which is the church of the living God the pillar and ground of the truth
- GK: εαν δε βραδύνω ίνα ειδής πως δει εν οίκω θεού αναστρέφεσθαι ήτις εστίν εκκλησία θεού ζώντος στύλος και εδραίωμα της αληθείας
Hebrews 10:33
- KJV: Partly whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions and partly whilst ye became companions of them that were so used
- GK: τούτο μεν ονειδισμοίς τε και θλίψεσι θεατριζόμενοι τούτο δε κοινωνοί των ούτως αναστρεφομένων γενηθέντες
Hebrews 13:18
- KJV: Pray for us for we trust we have a good conscience in all things willing to live honestly
- GK: προσεύχεσθε περί ημών πεποίθαμεν γαρ ότι καλήν συνείδησιν έχομεν εν πάσι καλώς θέλοντες αναστρέφεσθαι
1 Peter 1:17
- KJV: And if ye call on the Father who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work pass the time of your sojourning in fear
- GK: και ει πατέρα επικαλείσθε τον απροσωπολήπτως κρίνοντα κατά το εκάστου έργον εν φόβω τον της παροικίας υμών χρόνον αναστράφητε
2 Peter 2:18
- KJV: For when they speak great swelling of vanity they allure through the lusts of the flesh wantonness those that were clean escaped from them who live in error
- GK: υπέρογκα γαρ ματαιότητος φθεγγόμενοι δελεάζουσιν εν επιθυμίαις σαρκός ασελγείαις τους όντως αποφυγόντας τους εν πλάνη αναστρεφομένους
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