Strong's Lexicon
G4761 — στρεβλόω
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G4761 |
|---|---|
| Word: | στρεβλόω |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | from a derivative of G4762 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 1 |
| Transliteration: | strebloo |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | streb-loh'-o |
| Meaning: | 1. to wrench 2. (specially) to torture (by the rack) 3. (figuratively) to pervert |
| KJV Renderings: | wrest |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
στρεβλόω, στρέβλω; (στρεβλός (from στρέφω) twisted, Latintortuosus; hence, στρέβλη, feminine, an instrument of torture); to twist, turn awry (Herodotus); to torture, put to the rack (Aristophanes, Plato, Demosthenes, Polybius, Josephus, 3Ma 4:14); metaphorically, to pervert, of one who wrests or tortures language to a false sense, 2Pe 3:16.
Englishman's Greek Concordance
στρεβλόω (wrest)
2 Peter 3:16
- KJV: As also in all epistles speaking in them of these things in which are some things hard to be understood which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest as also the other scriptures unto their own destruction
- GK: ως και εν πάσαις ταις επιστολαίς λαλών εν αυταίς περί τούτων εν οις έστι δυσνόητά τινα α οι αμαθείς και αστήρικτοι στρεβλούσιν ως και τας λοιπάς γραφάς προς την ιδίαν αυτών απώλειαν
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