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Strong's #1994: epistrepho (pronounced ep-ee-stref'-o)

from 1909 and 4762; to revert (literally, figuratively or morally):--come (go) again, convert, (re-)turn (about, again).




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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epistrephō

1) transitively

1a) to turn to

1a1) to the worship of the true God

1b) to cause to return, to bring back

1b1) to the love and obedience of God

1b2) to the love for the children

1b3) to love wisdom and righteousness

2) intransitively

2a) to turn to one' s self

2b) to turn one' s self about, turn back

2c) to return, turn back, come back

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G1909 and G4762

Citing in TDNT: 7:722, 1093




Usage:

This word is used 39 times:

Matthew 9:22: "But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter,"
Matthew 10:13: "if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you."
Matthew 12:44: "Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out;"
Matthew 13:15: "and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."
Matthew 24:18: "which is in the field return back to take his clothes."
Mark 4:12: "not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them."
Mark 5:30: "had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and"
Mark 8:33: "But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked"
Mark 13:16: "the field not turn back again for to take up his"
Luke 1:16: "of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God."
Luke 1:17: "and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,"
Luke 2:20: "And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God"
Luke 8:55: "And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and"
Luke 17:4: "and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent;"
Luke 17:31: "the field, let him likewise not return back."
Luke 22:32: "and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren."
John 12:40: "understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them."
John 21:20: "Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus"
Acts 3:19: "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when"
Acts 9:35: "saw him, and turned to the Lord."
Acts 9:40: "and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body"
Acts 11:21: "a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord."
Acts 14:15: "with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto"
Acts 15:19: "them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:"
Acts 15:36: "said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren"
Acts 16:18: "But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit,"
Acts 26:18: "To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light,"
Acts 26:20: "Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works"
Acts 28:27: "and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."
2 Corinthians 3:16: "Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil"
Galatians 4:9: "of God, how turn ye again to the weak"
1 Thessalonians 1:9: "you, and how ye turned to God from idols"
James 5:19: "truth, and one convert him;"
James 5:20: "Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way"
1 Peter 2:25: "going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and"
2 Peter 2:21: "of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment"
2 Peter 2:22: "true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and"
Revelation 1:12: "And I turned to see the voice that spake with"
Revelation 1:12: "with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;"









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