Anakampto means “turn back” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H344 — ayah (“kite”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G344 ἀνακάμπτω (anakampto) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. anakampto (an-ak-amp'-to) v. 1. to turn back [from G303 and G2578] It has 17 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include turn. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
anakampto (an-ak-amp'-to) v. 1. to turn back [from G303 and G2578] KJV: (re-)turn Root(s): G303, G2578
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G344. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to return
Usage: ἀνα-κάμπτω [in LXX: 1Ch.19:5, Jer.3:1, al. (שׁוּב), Jer.15:5 (סוּר) ;] __1. trans., to bend or turn back. __2. Intrans., to return: Mat.2:12, Act.18:21, Heb.11:15; metaphorically (cf. MM, VGT, see word), Luk.10:6.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render anakampto, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G344 (ἀνακάμπτω) appears 14 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
4 indexed usages in New Testament.
And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
9 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And he says to them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every one his sword on his thigh, and go through and return from gate to gate through the camp, and slay every one his brother, and every one his neighbor, and every one him that is nearest to him.
From the blood of the slain, and from the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan returned not empty; And the sword of Saul turned not back empty.
And David made himself a name: and when he returned he smote Edom in Gebelem to the number of eighteen thousand.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Therefore now shall ye not join your daughters unto their sons, neither shall ye take their daughters unto your sons.
All things that are of the earth do turn to the earth again: And that which is of the waters doth return into the sea.
And he hearkened to them, and proved them ten days.
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G344.
And he says to them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every one his sword on his thigh, and go through and return from gate to gate through the camp, and slay every one his brother, and every one his neighbor, and every one him that is nearest to him.
From the blood of the slain, and from the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan returned not empty; And the sword of Saul turned not back empty.
And David made himself a name: and when he returned he smote Edom in Gebelem to the number of eighteen thousand.
And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned out of Egypt, that they sent and called him to the assembly, and they made him king over Israel: and none followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah and Benjamin only.
And there came men to report to David concerning the men: and he sent to meet them, for they were greatly disgraced: and the king said, Dwell in Jericho until your beards have grown, and return.
Their young will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring: Their young will go forth, and will not return to them.
If a man put away his wife, and she depart from him, and become another man’s, shall she return to him anymore at all? shall not that woman be utterly defiled? yet thou hast gone a-whoring with many shepherds, and hast returned to me, saith the Lord.
Who will spare thee, O Jerusalem? and who will fear for thee? or who will turn back to ask for thy welfare?
And I will set up a defense for my house, that they may not pass through, nor turn back, neither shall there anymore come upon them one to drive them away: for now have I seen with mine eyes.
And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
Therefore now shall ye not join your daughters unto their sons, neither shall ye take their daughters unto your sons.
All things that are of the earth do turn to the earth again: And that which is of the waters doth return into the sea.
And he hearkened to them, and proved them ten days.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G344, grouped by book.
Anakampto (Strong's G344) is a Greek word most simply glossed "turn back". anakampto (an-ak-amp'-to) v. 1. to turn back [from G303 and G2578]
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's G344 across 15 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G344 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as turn. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 9 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G344, with linked reader references where each row is available.