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1994 - epistrephó

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Strong's Concordance

Original word: ἐπιστρέφω
Transliteration: epistrephó
Definition (short): turn
Definition (full): to turn, to return

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from epi and strephó
Definition: to turn, to return
NASB Translation: back (2), back* (3), return (6), returned (3), returns (2), take back (1), turn (8), turn back (1), turned (6), turned again (1), turned around (1), turning (2), turning around (2), turns (2), turns...back (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

From epi and strepho; to revert (literally, figuratively or morally) -- come (go) again, convert, (re-)turn (about, again).

see GREEK epi

see GREEK strepho

References

Strong's 1994: 38 Occurrences
KJV: And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
NASB: "If the house is worthy, give it your blessing of peace. But if it is not worthy, take back your blessing of peace.
KJV: Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
NASB: "Then it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came'; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order.
KJV: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
NASB: FOR THE HEART OF THIS PEOPLE HAS BECOME DULL, WITH THEIR EARS THEY SCARCELY HEAR, AND THEY HAVE CLOSED THEIR EYES, OTHERWISE THEY WOULD SEE WITH THEIR EYES, HEAR WITH THEIR EARS, AND UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART AND RETURN, AND I WOULD HEAL THEM.'
KJV: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
NASB: "Whoever is in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.
KJV: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
NASB: so that WHILE SEEING, THEY MAY SEE AND NOT PERCEIVE, AND WHILE HEARING, THEY MAY HEAR AND NOT UNDERSTAND, OTHERWISE THEY MIGHT RETURN AND BE FORGIVEN."