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Strong's G654 ἀποστρέφω (apostrepho)

Apostrepho means “bring again” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H654 — ephlal in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G654
Language Greek
Linked Usages 424
Books 49

Strong's G654 Quick Answer

Strong's G654 ἀποστρέφω (apostrepho) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. apostrepho (ap-os-tref'-o) v. 1. to turn away or back {literally or figuratively} It has 424 linked Bible usages across 49 books. Visible English usage signals include lord, said, returned, return, and thee. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
apostrepho (ap-os-tref'-o) v. 1. to turn away or back {literally or figuratively}
Usage
424 linked usages
Books
49 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
lord, said, returned, return, and thee

Meaning and Definition

apostrepho (ap-os-tref'-o) v. 1. to turn away or back {literally or figuratively} [from G575 and G4762] KJV: bring again, pervert, turn away (from) Root(s): G575, G4762

Original Word
ἀποστρέφω
Transliteration
apostrepho
Derivation
Root: στρέφω R1: 575 R2: 4762
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G654. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to turn away

Usage: ἀπο-στρέφω [in LXX chiefly for שׁוּב ;] trans., with accusative, __(a) to turn away, remove: Rom.11:26, 2Ti.4:4; metaphorically, to turn away from allegiance, pervert: Luk.23:14; __(b) to turn back, return: μάχαιραν, Mat.26:52. Pass., reflex., to turn oneself away from: with accusative, Mat.5:42, 2Ti.1:15, Tit.1:14, Heb.12:25; so act., absol., Act.3:26 (cf. Sir.8:5; Bl., § 53, 1; Cremer, 880).† (AS)

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English Usage Signals

Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.

lord said returned return thee god back israel king turn away shalt

How Strong's G654 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 368 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G654 (ἀποστρέφω) appears 432 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G654 by Corpus

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.

Strong's G654 in the New Testament

10 indexed usages in New Testament.

Strong's G654 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

368 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 3:19 Septuagint / Brenton

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread until thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken, for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return.

Genesis 14:16 Septuagint / Brenton

And he recovered all the cavalry of Sodom, and he recovered Lot his nephew, and all his possessions, and the women and the people.

Genesis 15:16 Septuagint / Brenton

And in the fourth generation they shall return hither, for the sins of the Amorites are not yet filled up, even until now.

Strong's G654 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

45 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Strong's G654 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G654.

Genesis 3:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread until thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken, for earth thou art and to earth thou shalt return.
Genesis 14:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he recovered all the cavalry of Sodom, and he recovered Lot his nephew, and all his possessions, and the women and the people.
Genesis 15:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the fourth generation they shall return hither, for the sins of the Amorites are not yet filled up, even until now.
Genesis 16:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the angel of the Lord said to her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
Genesis 18:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the men having departed thence, came to Sodom; and Abraham was still standing before the Lord.
Genesis 18:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord departed, when he left off speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
Genesis 22:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abraham returned to his servants, and they arose and went together to the well of the oath; and Abraham dwelt at the well of the oath.
Genesis 24:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the servant said to him, Shall I carry back thy son to the land whence thou camest forth, if haply the woman should not be willing to return with me to this land?
Genesis 24:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abraham said to him, Take heed to thyself that thou carry not my son back thither.
Genesis 24:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if the woman should not be willing to come with thee into this land, thou shalt be clear from my oath, only carry not my son thither again.
Genesis 27:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And dwell with him certain days, until thy brother’s anger
Genesis 28:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And behold I am with thee to preserve thee continually in all the way wherein thou shalt go; and I will bring thee back to this land; for I will not desert thee, until I have done all that I have said to thee.
Genesis 28:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and bring me back in safety to the house of my father, then shall the Lord be for a God to me.
Genesis 31:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Jacob, Return to the land of thy father, and to thy family, and I will be with thee.
Genesis 32:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Laban rose up in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them; and Laban having turned back, departed to his place.
Genesis 33:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Esau returned on that day on his journey to Seir.
Genesis 38:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her; and the men of the place say, There is no harlot here.
Genesis 42:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joseph turned away from them, and wept; and again he came to them, and spoke to them; and he took Simeon from them, and bound him before their eyes.
Genesis 43:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And take double money in your hands, and the money that was returned in your sacks, carry back with you, lest peradventure it is a mistake.
Genesis 43:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the men, when they perceived that they were brought into the house of Joseph, said, We are brought in because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first; even in order to inform against us, and lay it to our charge; to take us for servants, and our asses.
Genesis 43:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass, when we came to unlade, and opened our sacks, there was also this money of each in his sack; we have now brought back our money by weight in our hands.
Genesis 44:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If we brought back to thee out of the land of Canaan the money which we found in our sacks, how should we steal silver or gold out of the house of thy lord?
Genesis 48:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die; and God shall be with you, and restore you to the land of your fathers.
Genesis 50:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brethren, and those that had gone up with him to bury his father.
Exodus 3:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and Moses turned away his face, for he was afraid to gaze at God.
Exodus 4:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and says, I will go and return to my brethren in Egypt, and will see if they are yet living. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in health. And in those days after some time, the king of Egypt died.
Exodus 4:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, When thou goest and returnest to Egypt, see—all the miracles I have charged thee with, thou shalt work before Pharaoh: and I will harden his heart, and he shall certainly not send away the people.
Exodus 10:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they brought back both Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh; and he said to them, Go and serve the Lord your God; but who are they that are going with you?
Exodus 13:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when Pharaoh sent forth the people, God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, because it was near; for God said, Lest at any time the people repent when they see war, and return to Egypt.
Exodus 14:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, and let them turn and encamp before the village, between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal-zephon: before them shalt thou encamp by the sea.
Exodus 23:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt turn them back and restore them to him.
Exodus 23:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt serve the Lord thy God, and I will bless thy bread and thy wine and thy water, and I will turn away sickness from you.
Exodus 32:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tables of testimony were in his hands, tables of stone written on both their sides: they were written within and without.
Numbers 13:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they returned from thence, having surveyed the land, after forty days.
Numbers 14:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Would we had died in the land of Egypt! or in this wilderness, would we had died! and why does the Lord bring us into this land to fall in war? our wives and our children shall be for a prey: now then it is better to return into Egypt.
Numbers 14:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they said one to another, Let us make a ruler, and return into Egypt.
Numbers 14:43 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For Amalek and the Canaanite are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; because ye have disobeyed the Lord and turned aside, and the Lord will not be among you.
Numbers 14:45 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Amalek and the Canaanite that dwelt in that mountain came down, and routed them, and destroyed them unto Hormah; and they returned to the camp.
Numbers 22:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have sinned, for I did not know that thou wert standing opposite in the way to meet me; and now if it shall not be pleasing to thee for me to go on, I will return.
Numbers 23:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he returned to him, and moreover he stood over his whole burnt offerings, and all the princes of Moab with him; and the Spirit of God came upon him.
Numbers 23:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God met Balaam, and put a word into his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.
Numbers 23:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he returned to him: and he also was standing by his whole burnt sacrifice, and all the princes of Moab with him; and Balak said to him, What has the Lord spoken?
Numbers 23:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, I have received commandment to bless: I will bless, and not turn back.
Numbers 24:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when Balaam saw that it pleased God to bless Israel, he did not go according to his custom to meet the omens, but turned his face toward the wilderness.
Numbers 24:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Balaam rose up and departed and returned to his place, and Balak went to his own home.
Numbers 25:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord said to Moses, Take all the princes of the people, and make them examples of judgment for the Lord in the face of the sun, and the anger of the Lord shall be turned away from Israel.
Numbers 32:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For ye will turn away from him to desert him yet once more in the wilderness, and ye will sin against this whole congregation.
Numbers 32:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
We will not return to our houses till the children of Israel shall have been distributed, each to his own inheritance.
Numbers 32:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and the land shall be subdued before the Lord, then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the Lord, and as regards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before the Lord.
Deuteronomy 5:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Go, say to them, Return ye to your houses;
Deuteronomy 9:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt know today, that the Lord thy God he shall go before thy face: he is a consuming fire; he shall destroy them, and he shall turn them back before thee, and shall destroy them quickly, as the Lord said to thee.
Deuteronomy 13:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there shall nothing of the cursed thing cleave to thy hand, that the Lord may turn from his fierce anger, and show thee mercy, and pity thee, and multiply thee, as he swore to thy fathers;
Deuteronomy 16:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt boil and roast and eat it in the place, which the Lord thy God shall choose; and thou shalt return in the morning, and go to thy house.
Deuteronomy 17:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For he shall not multiply to himself horses, and he shall by no means turn the people back to Egypt, lest he should multiply to himself horses; for the Lord said, Ye shall not anymore turn back by that way.
Deuteronomy 20:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the scribes shall speak to the people, saying, What man is he that has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another man dedicate it.
Deuteronomy 20:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And what man is he that has planted a vineyard, and not been made merry with it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man be made merry with it.
Deuteronomy 20:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And what man is he that has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
Deuteronomy 20:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the scribes shall speak further to the people, and say, What man is he that fears and is cowardly in his heart? Let him go and return to his house, lest he make the heart of his brother fail, as his own.
Deuteronomy 22:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When thou seest the calf of thy brother or his sheep wandering in the way, thou shalt not overlook them; thou shalt by all means turn them back to thy brother, and thou shalt restore them to him.
Deuteronomy 23:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because the Lord thy God walks in thy camp to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemy before thy face; and thy camp shall be holy, and there shall not appear in thee a disgraceful thing, and so he shall turn away from thee.
Deuteronomy 28:68 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord shall bring thee back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said, Thou shalt not see it again; and ye shall be sold there to your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and none shall buy you.
Deuteronomy 31:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will be very angry with them in that day, and I will leave them and turn my face away from them, and they shall be devoured; and many evils and afflictions shall come upon them; and they shall say in that day, Because the Lord my God is not with me, these evils have come upon me.
Deuteronomy 31:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will surely turn away my face from them in that day, because of all their evil doings which they have done, because they turned aside after strange gods.
Deuteronomy 32:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And said, I will turn away my face from them, And will show what shall happen to them in the last days; For it is a perverse generation, Sons in whom is no faith.
Joshua 2:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and she said to them, Depart into the hill country, lest the pursuers meet you, and ye shall be hidden there three days until your pursuers return from after you, and afterward ye shall depart on your way.
Joshua 8:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when the children of Israel had ceased slaying all that were in Ai, and in the fields, and in the mountain on the descent, from whence they pursued them even to the end, then Joshua returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
Joshua 10:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the people returned safe to Joshua to Makkedah; and no one of the children of Israel murmured with his tongue.
Joshua 10:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joshua and all Israel returned to Debir; and they encamped about it;
Joshua 11:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joshua returned at that time, and took Hazor and her king; now Hazor in former time was the chief of these kingdoms.
Joshua 22:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now the Lord our God has given our brethren rest, as he told them: now then return and depart to your homes, and to the land of your possession, which Moses gave you on the other side Jordan.
Joshua 22:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord, What is this transgression that ye have transgressed before the God of Israel, to turn away today from the Lord, in that ye have built for yourselves an altar, so that ye should be apostates from the Lord?
Joshua 22:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye have this day revolted from the Lord; and it shall come to pass if ye revolt this day from the Lord, that tomorrow there shall be wrath upon all Israel.
Joshua 22:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Far be it from us therefore that we should turn away from the Lord this day so as to apostatize from the Lord, so as that we should build an altar for burnt offerings, and for peace offerings, besides the altar of the Lord which is before his tabernacle.
Joshua 22:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So Phinehas the priest and the princes departed from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, and from the half tribe of Manasseh out of Gilead into the land of Canaan to the children of Israel; and reported the words to them.
Joshua 23:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For if ye shall turn aside and attach yourselves to these nations that are left with you, and make marriages with them, and become mingled with them and they with you,
Judges 2:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when the judge died, that they went back, and again corrupted themselves worse than their fathers to go after other gods to serve them and to worship them: they abandoned not their devices nor their stubborn ways.
Judges 5:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Her wise ladies answered her, And she returned answers to herself, saying,
Ruth 1:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she rose up and her two daughters-in-law, and they returned out of the country of Moab, for she heard in the country of Moab that the Lord had visited his people to give them bread.
Ruth 1:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Naomi said to her daughters-in-law, Go now, return each to the house of her mother: the Lord deal mercifully with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
Ruth 1:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following thee; for whithersoever thou goest, I will go, and wheresoever thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
Ruth 1:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I went out full, and the Lord has brought me back empty: and why call ye me Naomi, whereas the Lord has humbled me, and the Mighty One has afflicted me?
Ruth 2:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And his servant who was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel who returned with Naomi out of the land of Moab.
1 Kingdoms 5:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they send away the ark of God to Ashkelon; and it came to pass when the ark of God went into Ashkelon, that the men of Ashkelon cried out, saying, Why have ye brought back the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people?
1 Kingdoms 6:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they send messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought back the ark of the Lord, go down and take it home to yourselves.
1 Kingdoms 15:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have repented that I have made Saul to be king: for he has turned back from following me, and has not kept my word. And Samuel was grieved, and cried to the Lord all night.
1 Kingdoms 15:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Samuel turned his face to depart, and Saul caught hold of the skirt of his garment, and tore it.
1 Kingdoms 15:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Israel shall be divided to two: and God will not turn nor repent, for he is not as a man to repent.
1 Kingdoms 25:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So the servants of David turned back, and returned, and came and reported to David according to these words.
1 Kingdoms 25:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David heard it and said, Blessed be the Lord, who has judged the cause of my reproach at the hand of Nabal, and has delivered his servant from the power of evil; and the Lord has returned the mischief of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself for a wife.
1 Kingdoms 29:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the captains of the Philistines were displeased at him, and they say to him, Send the man away, and let him return to his place, where thou didst set him; and let him not come with us to the war, and let him not be a traitor in the camp: and wherewith will he be reconciled to his master? will it not be with the heads of those men?
1 Kingdoms 30:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then every ill-disposed and bad man of the soldiers who had gone with David, answered and said, Because they did not pursue together with us, we will not give them of the spoils which we have recovered, only let each one lead away with him his wife and his children, and let them return.
1 Kingdoms 31:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they turned him, and stripped off his armor, and sent it into the land of the Philistines, sending round glad tidings to their idols and to the people.
2 Kingdoms 1:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
2 Kingdoms 5:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
2 Kingdoms 11:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David sent messengers, and took her, and went in to her, and he lay with her: and she was purified from her uncleanness, and returned to her house.
2 Kingdoms 11:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he wrote in the letter, saying, Station Uriah in front of the severe part of the fight, and retreat from behind him, so shall he be wounded and die.
2 Kingdoms 14:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king said, Let him return to his house, and not see my face. And Absalom returned to his house, and saw not the king’s face.
2 Kingdoms 15:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I should find favor in the eyes of the Lord, then will he bring me back, and he will show me it and its beauty.
2 Kingdoms 15:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So Zadok and Abiathar brought back the ark of the Lord to Jerusalem, and it continued there.
2 Kingdoms 18:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing Israel, for Joab spared the people.
2 Kingdoms 20:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Amasa was weltering in blood in the midst of the way. And a man saw that all the people stood still; and he removed Amasa out of the path into a field, and he cast a garment upon him, because he saw everyone that came to him standing still.
2 Kingdoms 20:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the woman went in to all the people, and she spoke to all the city in her wisdom; and they took off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri; and took it away and threw it to Joab: and he blew the trumpet, and the people separated from the city away from him, every man to his tent: and Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
3 Kingdoms 2:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now I make one request of thee, do not turn away thy face. And Bathsheba said to him, Speak on.
3 Kingdoms 2:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to her, Speak, I pray thee, to King Solomon, for he will not turn away his face from thee, and let him give me Abishag the Shunammite for a wife.
3 Kingdoms 2:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she said to him, I ask of thee one little request; turn not away my face from thee. And the king said to her, Ask, my mother, and I will not reject thee.
3 Kingdoms 2:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Benaiah son of Jehoiada came to Joab to the tabernacle of the Lord, and said to him, Thus says the king, Come forth. And Joab said, I will not come forth, for I will die here. And Benaiah son of Jehoiada returned and spoke to the king, saying, Thus has Joab spoken, and thus has he answered me.
3 Kingdoms 2:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord has returned upon his own head the blood of his unrighteousness, inasmuch as he attacked two men more righteous and better than himself, and slew them with the sword, and my father David knew not of their blood, even Abner the son of Ner the commander-in-chief of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether the commander-in-chief of Judah.
3 Kingdoms 2:41 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.
3 Kingdoms 8:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king turned his face, and the king blessed all Israel (and the whole assembly of Israel stood):
3 Kingdoms 8:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
then shalt thou hear from heaven, and be gracious to the sins of thy people Israel, and thou shalt restore them to the land which thou gavest to their fathers.
3 Kingdoms 8:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When the heaven is restrained, and there is no rain, because they shall sin against thee, and they shall pray toward this place, and shall make confession to thy name, and shall turn from their sins when thou shalt have humbled them,
3 Kingdoms 8:57 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:
3 Kingdoms 9:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But if ye or your children do in anywise revolt from me, and do not keep my commandments and my ordinances, which Moses set before you, and ye go and serve other gods, and worship them:
3 Kingdoms 10:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatsoever she asked, besides all that he had given her by the hand of King Solomon: and she returned, and came into her own land, she and her servants.
3 Kingdoms 11:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead; and Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me go, and I will return to my country.
3 Kingdoms 22:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and convey him away to Shemer the keeper of the city;
3 Kingdoms 22:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw that this was not the king of Israel, that they returned from him.
4 Kingdoms 9:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, in his war with Hazael king of Syria. And Jehu said, If your heart is with me, let there not go forth out of the city one fugitive to go and report to Jezreel.
4 Kingdoms 14:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he took the gold, and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and the hostages, and returned to Samaria.
4 Kingdoms 15:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Menahem raised the silver by a tax upon Israel, even on every mighty man in wealth, to give to the king of the Assyrians, fifty shekels levied on each man; and the king of the Assyrians departed, and remained not there in the land.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G654, grouped by book.

Genesis 24 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 16 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 15 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ruth 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 15 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 12 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 25 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Esther 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 37 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 41 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 46 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 39 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jonah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 3 usages, New Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
2 Timothy 2 usages, New Testament
Titus 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 15 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 13 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 8 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G654 FAQ

What does apostrepho (ἀποστρέφω) mean?

Apostrepho (Strong's G654) is a Greek word most simply glossed "bring again". apostrepho (ap-os-tref'-o) v. 1. to turn away or back {literally or figuratively}

How many times is apostrepho (ἀποστρέφω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 424 linked usages for Strong's G654 across 49 books.

Where can I study apostrepho (ἀποστρέφω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G654 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate apostrepho (ἀποστρέφω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lord, said, returned, return, thee, and god. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G654 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 368 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 45 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G654, with linked reader references where each row is available.