μεταστρέφω
to turn around
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3344 appears in the Book of Galatians — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Galatians
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, μεταστρεφω (metastréphō) means “to turn around.” It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. The word gravitates to Acts (33%), then Galatians and James. First canonically at Acts 2:20, it enters the text early. It shares a root with μετα, μεθερμηνευω and μεθιστημι. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3344 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 33%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 33%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Be turned 1×, Pervert 1×, Shall be turned 1×
- American Standard Version: Be turned 1×, Let 1×, Pervert 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Distort 1×, Turn 1×, Will be turned 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pervert 1×, Will be turned 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3344 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3344 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3344 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3344 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to turn around, turn around
Word origin
Derived from μετα (metá) (G3326) — with.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G3344 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μεταστρέψαι metastrépsai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Galatians 1:7 | 1 |
| μεταστραφήσεται metastraphḗsetai | Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 2:20 | 1 |
| μετατραπήτω metatrapḗtō | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular | James 4:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3344, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- μεθερμηνευω methermēneúō G3177 to interpret
- μεθιστημι methístēmi G3179 to transfer
- μεθοδεια methodeía G3180 deceit
- μεθοριος methórios G3181 border
- μεσος mésos G3319 middle
- μεταβαινω metabaínō G3327 to pass over
- μεταβαλλω metabállō G3328 to turn around
- μεταγω metágō G3329 to transfer
- μεταδιδωμι metadídōmi G3330 to impart
- μεταιρω metaírō G3332 to remove
- μετακαλεω metakaléō G3333 to summon
- μετακινεω metakinéō G3334 to move away
- μεταλαμβανω metalambánō G3335 to partake
- μεταλλασσω metallássō G3337 to exchange
- μεταμελλομαι metaméllomai G3338 it is a care
- μεταμορφοω metamorphóō G3339 to transform
- μετανοεω metanoéō G3340 to repent
- μεταξυ metaxý G3342 between
- μεταπεμπω metapémpō G3343 to send for
- μετασχηματιζω metaschēmatízō G3345 to transform
- μετατιθημι metatíthēmi G3346 to transpose
- μετεπειτα metépeita G3347 afterwards
- μετεχω metéchō G3348 to partake
- μετεωριζω meteōrízō G3349 to be puffed up
+2 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 28 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μεταστρεφω appears 17 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 17 verses in 11 books.
- 17
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 17
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 14:5 μεταστρέφω
- Deuteronomy 23:6 μεταστρέφω
- 1 Samuel 10:9 μεταστρέφω
- 2 Chronicles 36:4 μεταστρέφω
- Psalms 65:6 μεταστρέφω
- Jeremiah 6:12 μεταστρέφω
- Lamentations 5:2 μεταστρέφω
- Hosea 7:8 μεταστρέφω
- Joel 3:4 μεταστρέφω
- Amos 8:10 μεταστρέφω
- Zephaniah 3:9 μεταστρέφω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3344) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 14:5 μεταστρέφω It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"
- Deuteronomy 23:6 μεταστρέφω You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.
- 1 Samuel 10:9 μεταστρέφω It was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs happened that day.
- 2 Chronicles 36:4 μεταστρέφω The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
- Psalms 65:6 μεταστρέφω Who by his power forms the mountains, Having armed yourself with strength;
- Psalms 77:44 μεταστρέφω
- Psalms 77:57 μεταστρέφω
- Psalms 104:25 μεταστρέφω There is the sea, great and wide, In which are innumerable living things, Both small and large animals.
- Psalms 104:29 μεταστρέφω You hide your face: they are troubled; You take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
- Jeremiah 6:12 μεταστρέφω Their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 21:4 μεταστρέφω Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them into the midst of this city.
- Lamentations 5:2 μεταστρέφω Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
- Hosea 7:8 μεταστρέφω Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.
- Hosea 11:8 μεταστρέφω "How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, My compassion is aroused.
- Joel 3:4 μεταστρέφω "Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, And all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.
- Amos 8:10 μεταστρέφω I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; And I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, And baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, And the end of it like a bitter day.
- Zephaniah 3:9 μεταστρέφω For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on the name of Yahweh, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3344) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
