ἀποστροφή
turning away, return
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀποστροφή appears in the Greek Septuagint — 15 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 3:16 ἀποστροφή And to the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your pains and your groanings; in pain you shall bring forth children, and your submission shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you.
- Genesis 4:7 ἀποστροφή Have you not sinned if you have brought it rightly, but not rightly divided it? be still, to you shall be his submission, and you shall rule over him.
- Deuteronomy 22:1 ἀποστροφή When you see the calf of your brother or his sheep wandering in the way, you shall not overlook them; you shall by all means turn them back to your brother, and you shall restore them to him.
- Deuteronomy 31:18 ἀποστροφή And I will surely turn away my face from them in that day, because of all their evil doings which they have done, because they turned aside after strange gods.
- 1 Samuel 7:17 ἀποστροφή And his return was to Armathaim, because there was his house; and there he judged Israel, and built there an altar to the Lord.
- Jeremiah 5:6 ἀποστροφή Therefore has a lion out of the forest struck them, and a wolf has destroyed them even to their houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities: all that go forth from them shall be hunted: for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their revoltings.
- Jeremiah 6:19 ἀποστροφή Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evils upon this people, even the fruit of their rebellions; for they have not heeded my words, and they have rejected my law.
- Jeremiah 8:5 ἀποστροφή Therefore has this my people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?
- Jeremiah 18:12 ἀποστροφή And they said, We will quit ourselves like men, for we will pursue our perverse ways, and we will perform each the lusts of his evil heart.
- Ezekiel 16:53 ἀποστροφή And I will turn their captivity, even the captivity of Sodom and her daughters; and I will turn the captivity of Samaria and her daughters; and I will turn your captivity in the midst of them:
- Ezekiel 16:53 ἀποστροφή And I will turn their captivity, even the captivity of Sodom and her daughters; and I will turn the captivity of Samaria and her daughters; and I will turn your captivity in the midst of them:
- Ezekiel 16:53 ἀποστροφή And I will turn their captivity, even the captivity of Sodom and her daughters; and I will turn the captivity of Samaria and her daughters; and I will turn your captivity in the midst of them:
- Ezekiel 16:53 ἀποστροφή And I will turn their captivity, even the captivity of Sodom and her daughters; and I will turn the captivity of Samaria and her daughters; and I will turn your captivity in the midst of them:
- Ezekiel 33:11 ἀποστροφή Say to them, Thus says the Lord; As I live, I desire not the death of the ungodly, as that the ungodly should turn from his way and live: turn you⌃ heartily from your way; for why will you⌃ die, O house of Israel?
- Micah 2:12 ἀποστροφή Jacob shall be completely gathered with all his people: I will surely receive the remnant of Israel; I will cause them to return together, as sheep in trouble, as a flock in the midst of their fold: they shall rush forth from among men through the breach made before them:
About this word
About this word
ἀποστροφή (apostrophḗ), “turning away, return,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 15 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →