hypostrephō · return, turn back

What it means

hypostrephō (ὑποστρέφω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “return, turn back”.

Go back to where one came from.

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 go back to where one came from.

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

How it is translated

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

• returned ×22
• returning ×6
• return ×5
• turn back ×1
• turned back ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Luke×21
• Acts×11
• Galatians×1
• Hebrews×1
• 2 Peter×1

• Luke 1:56

  And Mary stayed with her about three months and returned to her home.

• Luke 2:20

  And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and seen, just as it had been told to them.

• Luke 2:43

  and when they had completed the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, and his parents did not know it.

• Luke 2:45

  and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching for him.

• Luke 4:1

  And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and he was led by the Spirit in the wilderness

• Luke 4:14

  And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news about him went out through the whole surrounding region.

• Luke 7:10

  And when those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave in good health.

• Luke 8:37

  And all the people of the surrounding region of the Gerasenes asked him to go away from them, because they were gripped with great fear. So he got into a boat and returned.

• Luke 8:39

  “Return to your home, and tell all that God has done for you.” And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole town all that Jesus had done for him.

• Luke 8:40

  Now when Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.

• Luke 9:10

  And when the apostles returned, they described to him all that they had done. And taking them along, he withdrew privately to a city called Bethsaida.

• Luke 10:17

  And the seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name!”

• Luke 11:24

  When the unclean spirit goes out of the person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest; and not finding any, it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came out.’

• Luke 17:15

  And one of them, seeing that he had been healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice;

• Luke 17:18

  Were there none found returning to give glory to God except this foreigner?”

• Luke 19:12

  So he said, “A certain man of noble birth went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.

• Luke 23:48

  And all the crowds who had gathered for this spectacle, having seen what had happened, returned home beating their breasts.

• Luke 23:56

  And they returned and prepared spices and ointments. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

• Luke 24:9

  And returning from the tomb, they reported all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

• Luke 24:33

  And rising that very hour, they returned to Jerusalem, and they found the eleven gathered together, and those with them,

• Luke 24:52

  And they, having bowed down before him, returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

• Acts 1:12

  Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.

• Acts 8:25

  So they, after testifying solemnly and speaking the word of the Lord, were returning to Jerusalem, and they were announcing the good news in many villages of the Samaritans.

• Acts 8:28

  and he was returning and sitting in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah.

• Acts 12:25

  And Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem, having completed their service, taking along with them John who was called Mark.

• Acts 13:13

  And Paul and those with him put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia; but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.

• Acts 13:34

  And that he raised him from the dead, no longer destined to return to decay, he has spoken in this way: ‘I will give you the holy things of David, the sure ones.’

• Acts 14:21

  And after announcing the good news in that city and making disciples of many, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,

• Acts 20:3

  And after he had spent three months there, when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

• Acts 21:6

  we said farewell to one another and went on board the ship, and they returned to their own homes.

• Acts 22:17

  And it happened, when I had returned to Jerusalem and while I was praying in the temple, that I fell into a trance

• Acts 23:32

  And the next day, leaving the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the barracks.

• Galatians 1:17

  nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and again I returned to Damascus.

• Hebrews 7:1

  For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham as he was returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him,

• 2 Peter 2:21

  For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment handed down to them.