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Strong's #654: apostrepho (pronounced ap-os-tref'-o)

from 575 and 4762; to turn away or back (literally or figuratively):--bring again, pervert, turn away (from).




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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apostrephō

1) to turn away

1a) to remove anything from anyone

1b) to turn him away from allegiance to any one

1c) tempt to defect

2) to turn back, return, bring back

2a) of putting a sword back in its sheath

2b) of Judas returning money to temple

3) to turn one' s self away, turn back, return

4) to turn one' s self away from, deserting

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G575 and G4762

Citing in TDNT: 7:719, 1093




Usage:

This word is used 10 times:

Matthew 5:42: "borrow of thee turn not thou away."
Matthew 26:52: "said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his"
Matthew 27:3: "that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the"
Luke 23:14: "man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold,"
Acts 3:26: "him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities."
Romans 11:26: "the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:"
2 Timothy 1:15: "they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus"
2 Timothy 4:4: "And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and"
Titus 1:14: "and commandments of men, that turn from the truth."
Hebrews 12:25: "much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:"









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