Strebloo means “wrest” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4761 — marashah (“principality”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4761 στρεβλόω (strebloo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. strebloo (streb-loh'-o) v. 1. to wrench 2. (specially) to torture (by the rack) It has 7 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include wrest. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
strebloo (streb-loh'-o) v. 1. to wrench 2. (specially) to torture (by the rack) 3. (figuratively) to pervert [from a derivative of G4762] KJV: wrest Root(s): G4762
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4761. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to distort
Usage: στρεβλόω, -ῶ (στρέφω), [in LXX: 2Ki.22:27 (פָּתַל hithp.), 3Ma.4:14, 4Ma.9:17 4Mac 12:4 4Mac 12:11 4Mac 15:14 * ;] to twist, torture. Metaphorical (cf. 2Ki, l.with), to twist or pervert language: 2Pe.3:16.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render strebloo, 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 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. 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 G4761 (στρεβλόω) appears 6 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And with the excellent thou wilt be excellent, And with the froward thou wilt be froward.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The whole nation was now to be registered. Every individual was to be specified by name; not for that hard servitude of labor which we have a little before mentioned, but that he might expose them to the aforementioned tortures; and finally, in the short space of a day, might extirpate them by his cruelties.
he answered, Not so powerful, O accursed ministers, is your wheel, as to stifle my reasoning; cut my limbs, and burn my flesh, and twist my joints.
seeing him already encompassed with chains, had him brought nearer, and endeavored to counsel him, saying,
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4761.
And with the excellent thou wilt be excellent, And with the froward thou wilt be froward.
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
The whole nation was now to be registered. Every individual was to be specified by name; not for that hard servitude of labor which we have a little before mentioned, but that he might expose them to the aforementioned tortures; and finally, in the short space of a day, might extirpate them by his cruelties.
he answered, Not so powerful, O accursed ministers, is your wheel, as to stifle my reasoning; cut my limbs, and burn my flesh, and twist my joints.
seeing him already encompassed with chains, had him brought nearer, and endeavored to counsel him, saying,
Impious tyrant, and most blasphemous man, wert thou not ashamed, having received prosperity and a kingdom from God, to slay His servants, and to rack the doers of godliness?
At the racking and roasting of each one of them, the observant mother was prevented by religion from changing.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4761, grouped by book.
Strebloo (Strong's G4761) is a Greek word most simply glossed "wrest". strebloo (streb-loh'-o) v. 1. to wrench 2. (specially) to torture (by the rack)
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's G4761 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4761 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 wrest. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4761, with linked reader references where each row is available.