anastrephō · overturn, live

What it means

anastrephō (ἀναστρέφω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “overturn, live”.

Overturn; also return, conduct oneself.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To turn something upside down.
2. To go back to the place one left.
3. To go through life in a certain way.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• I will return ×1
• conduct oneself ×1
• conduct ourselves ×1
• conduct yourselves ×1
• live ×1
• lived ×1
• overturned ×1
• they returned ×1
• we have conducted ourselves ×1
• were treated ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• John×1
• Acts×2
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Ephesians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×2
• 1 Peter×1
• 2 Peter×1

• John 2:15

  And making a whip out of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle; and he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

• Acts 5:22

  But the officers who came did not find them in the prison, and they returned and reported,

• Acts 15:16

  ‘After these things I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen, and its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,

• 2 Corinthians 1:12

  For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

• Ephesians 2:3

  among whom we all also once lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

• 1 Timothy 3:15

  but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how one must conduct oneself in the household of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

• Hebrews 10:33

  sometimes being publicly exposed to reproaches and afflictions, and sometimes becoming partners with those who were treated that way.

• Hebrews 13:18

  Pray for us, for we are convinced that we have a good conscience, wanting to conduct ourselves well in all things.

• 1 Peter 1:17

  And if you call on as Father the one who judges without partiality according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your pilgrimage,

• 2 Peter 2:18

  For uttering swelling words of futility, they entice with desires of the flesh, with debaucheries, those who are barely escaping from those who live in error,