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GreekG4761Verb

στρεβλόω

strebloō

1Occurrences
G4761Strong's #
VerbPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

to wrench, i.e. (specially), to torture (by the rack), but only figuratively, to pervert

from a derivative of G4762 (στρέφω);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
to twist, torture. Metaphorical, to twist or pervert language.
LXX: (פָּתַל hithp.), 4 4 4 *

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Verb

Morphology Code

G:V

Full Description

Greek Verb

Occurrences

στρεβλόω appears 1 time in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Peter
1

Key Passages

2 Peter 3:16BSB

He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.