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στρέφω

to turn

‘to turn’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G4762 Strong's Greek
stréphō Transliteration
/stref'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 22 appearances

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About this entry

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The Greek verb στρεφω centers on the idea of “to turn.” First canonically at Matthew 5:39, it enters the text early. The Greek New Testament uses it across 22 verses — uncommon. Luke dominates its distribution — 8 of 22 verses. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
convert
Modern gloss
to turn
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G4762 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 →

22
distinct verses
The word appears in 22 distinct verses.
5 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 5:39
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 5:39.
Revelation 11:6
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 11:6.
#586
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 586 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 22 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 18 · 82%
  • Acts 3 · 14%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 1 · 5%

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 22 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 18 verses · 82%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 11 verses · 50%
  • Johannine 5 verses · 23%
  • Revelation 1 verse · 5%

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: He turned 4×, Turned 4×, Turn 2×
  • American Standard Version: He turned 3×, Turn 3×, Turned 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Turned 8×, Turn 4×, Turning 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having turned 6×, Turning 4×, Turn 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4762 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “He turned” 4×
  • “Turned” 4×
  • “Turn” 2×

Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4762 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “He turned” 3×
  • “Turn” 3×
  • “Turned” 3×
  • “Turning” 3×

Plus 5 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 G4762 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Turned” 8×
  • “Turn” 4×
  • “Turning” 2×

Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G4762 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Having turned” 6×
  • “Turning” 4×
  • “Turn” 2×

Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 2 senses 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.

  1. to turn, turn around
  2. to turn one's self (i.e. to turn the back to one

Word origin

Derived from τροπη (tropḗ) (G5157) — turning.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 18:54,1

strengthened from the base of G5157 ; to twist that is turn quite around or reverse (literally or figuratively): - convert turn (again back again self self about).

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 11 distinct written forms G4762 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
στραφεὶς strapheìs Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 9:22 11
ἔστρεψεν éstrepsen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 27:3 2
στρέφειν stréphein Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive Revelation 11:6 1
στρέψον strépson Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Matthew 5:39 1
στραφέντες straphéntes Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 7:6 1
στραφεῖσα strapheîsa Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine John 20:16 1
στραφῆτε straphē̂te Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 18:3 1
στραφῶσιν straphō̂sin Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural John 12:40 1
στρεφόμεθα strephómetha Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 1st person, Plural Acts 13:46 1
ἐστράφη estráphē Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 20:14 1
ἐστράφησαν estráphēsan Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Acts 7:39 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4762, 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.

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word στρεφω appears 34 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 34 verses in 14 books.

34
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
34
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
14 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 14 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4762) 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.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4762) 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.

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