ἀναστροφή
manner of life
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 5 times (38%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 5 times (38%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (15%)
- Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine 1 time (8%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 13 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G391 appears — 13 distinct verses across 7 books. 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 1 verse
Ephesians 1 verse
1 Timothy 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
James 1 verse
1 Peter 6 verses
- 1 Peter 1:15 ἀναστροφῇ n dat sg fem but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
- 1 Peter 1:18 ἀναστροφῆς n gen sg fem knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
- 1 Peter 2:12 ἀναστροφὴν n acc sg fem having good behavior among the nations, so in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
- 1 Peter 3:1 ἀναστροφῆς n gen sg fem In like manner, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;
- 1 Peter 3:2 ἀναστροφὴν n acc sg fem seeing your pure behavior in fear.
- 1 Peter 3:16 ἀναστροφήν n acc sg fem having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good manner of life in Christ.
2 Peter 2 verses
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, αναστροφη (anastrophḗ) means “manner of life.” The King James Version usually renders it “conversation,” while modern versions prefer “behavior” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 13 verses in 7 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in 1 Peter (46% of all occurrences). Scripture first uses it in Galatians 1:13. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G391 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 →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #863
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 863 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 13 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 13 distinct verses.
- General (Catholic) Epistles 9 verses · 69%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 23%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 8%
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: Conversation 12×
- American Standard Version: Manner of life 4×, Behavior 3×, Life 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Way of life 4×, Conduct 3×, Behavior 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Behavior 7×, Conduct 3×, Manner of life 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G391 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G391 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G391 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G391 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- manner of life, conduct, behaviour, deportment
Word origin
Derived from αναστρεφω (anastréphō) (G390) — to conduct oneself.
From G390 ; behavior : - conversation.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G391 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀναστροφῆς anastrophē̂s | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Hebrews 13:7 | 5 |
| ἀναστροφὴν anastrophḕn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Ephesians 4:22 | 3 |
| ἀναστροφήν anastrophḗn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Galatians 1:13 | 2 |
| ἀναστροφῇ anastrophē̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Timothy 4:12 | 2 |
| ἀναστροφαῖς anastrophaîs | Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine | 2 Peter 3:11 | 1 |
