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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: στρεβλόω

(Strong's #4761 — Verb — strebloo — streb-lo'-o )

"to twist, to torture" (from streble, "a which" or "instrument of torture," and akin to strepho, "to turn"), is used metaphorically in 2 Peter 3:16 , of "wresting" the Scriptures on the part of the ignorant and unsteadfast. In the Sept., 2 Samuel 22:27 .

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Wrest'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​w/wrest.html. 1940.
 
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