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Strong's #654 - ἀποστρέφω
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- to turn away
- to remove anything from anyone
- to turn him away from allegiance to any one
- tempt to defect
- to turn back, return, bring back
- of putting a sword back in its sheath
- of Judas returning money to temple
- to turn one's self away, turn back, return
- to turn one's self away from, deserting
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ἀπο-στρέφω,
Dor. aor. ἀποστράψαι SIG 244 ii 16 (Delph.); Ion. aor. ἀποστρέψασκε Il. 22.197, etc.: pf. ἀπέστροφα LXX 1 Samuel 6:21 : — Pass. and Med., fut. -στρέψομαι X. Cyr. 5.5.36, Plu. 2.387c: aor. -εστράφην [ᾰ ], S. OC 1272, etc.; later -εστρεψάμην LXX Hosea 8:3, prob. in Ar. Nu. 776: fut. -στρᾰφήσομαι LXX Numbers 25:4, al.: pf. -έστραμμαι Hdt. 1.166, etc.: Ion. 3 pl. plpf. -εστράφατο ibid.; -έστρεμμαι PSI 4.392.11 (iii B.C.): —
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1. turn back: hence, either turn to flight, ὄφρ'.. Ἀχαιοὺς αὖτις ἀποστρέψῃσιν Il. 15.62, etc., cf. Hdt. 8.94; or turn back from flight, X. Cyr. 4.3.1; send home again, Th. 4.97, 5.75; ῥῆμα bring back word, LXX 2 Kings 22:9; ἀποστρέψαντε πόδας καὶ χεῖρας having twisted back the hands and feet so as to bind them, Od. 22.173, 190,cf. S. OT 1154; τὸν ὦμον Ar. Eq. 263; ἀποστρέφετε τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν, ὦ Σκύθαι Ar. Lys. 455; ἀ. τὸν αὐχένα Hdt. 4.188; guide back again, ἀποστρέψαντες ἔβαν νέας Od. 3.162; ἴχνι' ἀποστρέψας having turned the steps of the oxen backwards so as to make it appear that they had gone the other way, h.Merc. 76; turn away, avert, αὐχέν' ἀποστρέψας Thgn. 858; ἀπέστρεψ' ἔμπαλιν παρηΐδα E. Med. 1148; but τὸ πρόσωπον πρός τινα Plu. Publ. 6; bring back, recall, ἐξ ἰσθμοῦ X. An. 2.6.3; φῶτας ἀπέστρεψεν Περσεφόνης θαλάμων [ Emp. ] 156.4.
2. turn away or aside, divert, v.l. in Th. 4.80, etc.; ὕδατα cut off water from a besieged town, Ph. Bel. 97.4; τὸν Κάϋστρον SIG 839.14 (Ephesus); τὸν πόλεμον ἐς Μακεδονίαν Arr. An. 2.1.1; avert a danger, an evil, etc., πῆμ' ἀ. νόσου A. Ag. 850 (Porson); prevent, Dsc. 2.136; rebut, δίκην Ar. Nu. 776 (v. supr.); ἀ. τύχην μὴ οὐ γενέσθαι Antipho 6.15 codd.; ἀ. εἰς τοὐναντίον τοὺς λόγους Pl. Sph. 239d; τὰς πράξεις εἰς τοὺς ἀντιδίκους Arist. Rh.Al. 1442b6.
3. ἀ. τινά τινος dissuade from, X. Eq.Mag. 1.12; τινὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ λήμματος Din. 2.23; πότων ἀ. τοὺς στομάχους D.H. Dem. 15.
II as if intr. (sc. ἑαυτόν, ἵππον, ναῦν, etc.),
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1. turn back, Th. 6.65; ἀ. ὀπίσω Hdt. 4.43; ἀ. πάλιν S. OC 1403.
2. turn away or aside, Hdt. 8.87; of a river, Id. 4.52; τἀναντία ἀ. X. HG 3.4.12. Pass., to be turned back, ἀπεστράφθαι τοὺς ἐμβόλους, of ships, to have their beaks bent back, Hdt. 1.166; ἀποστραφῆναι.. τὼ πόδε to have one's feet twisted, Ar. Pax 279; τρίχες ἀπεστραμμέναι closecurled, Arist. Phgn. 809b26.
II Med. and Pass., turn oneself from or away, ἀπεστραμμέναι ἀπ' ἀλλήλων Id. HA 611a6; ἀπεστραμμένοι back to back, Apollod. Poliorc. 145.2: esp.,
1 turn one's face away from, abandon, c. acc., Phoc. 2, Sallust. 3; ἐχθροῦ ἀξίωσιν Epicur. Fr. 215; μή μ' ἀποστραφῇς S. OC 1272; μή μ' ἀποστρέφου E. IT 801, cf. Ar. Pax 683, X. Cyr. 5.5.36, PSI l.c.; τὸ θεῖον ῥᾳδίως ἀπεστράφης E. Supp. 159: also c. gen., ἄψορρος οἴκων τῶνδ' ἀποστραφείς S. OT 431: c. dat., ἀστεφανώτοισι ἀπυστρέφονται Sapph. 78: abs., μὴ πρὸς θεῶν.. ἀποστραφῇς S. OT 326; ἀπεστραμμένοι λόγοι hostile words, Hdt. 7.160; τὴν διάνοιαν ἀποστ ρέφεσθαι to be alienated, Phld. Lib. p.80.
2. turn oneself about, X. Cyr. 1.4.25; ἅρματα ἀπεστραμμένα ὥσπερ εἰς φυγήν ib. 6.2.17; ἀποστραφῆναι λυγιζόμενος escape by wriggling, Pl. R. 405c.
3. ἀποστραφῆναί τινος fall off from one, desert him, X. HG 4.8.4.
ἀποστρέφω; future ἀποστρέψω; 1 aorist ἀπέστρεψα; 2 aorist passive ἀπεστράφην; (present middle ἀποστρέφομαι; from Homer down);
1. to turn away: τινα or τί ἀπό τίνος, 2 Timothy 4:4 (τήν ἀκοήν ἀπό τῆς ἀληθείας); to remove anything from anyone, Romans 11:26 (Isaiah 59:20); ἀποστρέφειν τινα simply, to turn him away from allegiance to anyone, tempt to defection (A. V. pervert), Luke 23:14.
2. to turn back, return, bring back: Matthew 26:52 (put back thy sword into its sheath); Matthew 27:3, of Judas bringing back the shekels, where T Tr WH ἔστρεψε (cf. Test. xii. Patr. test. Jos. § 17). (In the same sense for הֵשִׁיב, Genesis 14:16; Genesis 28:15; Genesis 43:11 (
3. intransitive, to turn oneself away, turn back, return: ἀπό τῶν πονηριῶν, Acts 3:26, cf. Acts 3:19 (ἀπό ἁμαρτίας, Sir. 8:5 Sir. 17:21 (26 Tdf.); to return from a place, Genesis 18:33; 1 Macc. 11:54, etc.; (see Kneucker on Baruch 1:13); Xenophon, Hell. 3, 4, 12); cf. Meyer on Acts, the passage cited; (others, (with A. V.) take it actively here: in turning away every one of you, etc.).
4. Middle, with 2 aorist passive, to turn oneself away from, with an accusative of the object (cf. (Jelf, § 548 obs. 1; Krüger, § 47, 23, 1); Buttmann, 192 (166)); to reject, refuse: τινα, Matthew 5:42; Hebrews 12:25; τήν ἀλήθειαν, Titus 1:14; in the sense of deserting, τινα, 2 Timothy 1:15.
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ἀπο -στρέφω ,
[in LXX chiefly for H7725;]
trans., c. acc,
(a) to turn away, remove: Romans 11:26, 2 Timothy 4:4; metaph., to turn away from allegiance, pervert: Luke 23:14;
(b) to turn back, return: μάχαιραν , Matthew 26:52. Pass., reflex., to turn oneself away from: c. acc, Matthew 5:42, 2 Timothy 1:15, Titus 1:14, Hebrews 12:25; so act., absol., Acts 3:26 (cf. Sirach 8:5; Bl., § 53, 1; Cremer, 880).†
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P Leid Wxiv. 23 has the prayer Σάραπι. . μὴ ἀποστραφῇς με. An amulet, the opening lines of which were published by Wilcken in Archiv i. 427, and tentatively dated iii/v A.D., is given in BGU III. 955, Κύριε Σαβαὼθ ἀπόστρεψον ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ ·οτον (?) νόσον τῆς κεφαλ [ῆς ]. That these should be the only occurrences of so common a word we can cite from papyri is not a little perplexing. It occurs once in Syll 389.14 (A.D. 129), where Ephesus offers thanks to Hadrian as ἀποστρέψαντά τε καὶ τὸν βλά [πτοντα τοὺς ] λιμένας ποταμὸν Κάϋστρον. Its literary record is plentiful, and it requires nine columns in HR, with nine occurrences in NT, and a good number in the early patristic writers included in Goodspeed’s indices. It is also found in Apoc. Peter 8 of men who ";pervert"; righteousness—ἀποστρέφοντες τὴν δικαιοσύνην.
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