strephō · turn

What it means

strephō (στρέφω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “turn”.

Turn around; change.

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 face round toward someone.
2. To change direction or state: to turn toward something, to turn away, or to change one thing into another.

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

How it is translated

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

• turning ×9
• turned ×6
• turn ×5
• returned ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×6
• Luke×7
• John×4
• Acts×3
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 5:39

  But I tell you not to resist the evil person; but whoever slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

• Matthew 7:6

  “Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor throw your pearls before the pigs, so that they will not trample them under their feet and turn and tear you to pieces.

• Matthew 9:22

  Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, “Take courage, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour.

• Matthew 16:23

  But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you are not thinking the things of God but the things of men.”

• Matthew 18:3

  and said, “Truly I tell you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven.

• Matthew 27:3

  Then Judas, who had handed him over, seeing that he had been condemned, felt regret and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the high priests and elders,

• Luke 7:9

  And when Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turning to the crowd that was following him, he said, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such great faith.”

• Luke 7:44

  And turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

• Luke 9:55

  But turning, he rebuked them.

• Luke 10:23

  And turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Happy are the eyes that see what you see.

• Luke 14:25

  Now large crowds were traveling with him; and turning, he said to them,

• Luke 22:61

  And the Lord turned and looked at Peter; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”

• Luke 23:28

  But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children,

• John 1:38

  And Jesus turned, and seeing them following, he says to them, “What are you looking for?” And they said to him, “Rabbi” (which, translated, means Teacher), “where are you staying?”

• John 12:40

  “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they may not see with their eyes and understand with their heart and turn, and I will heal them.”

• John 20:14

  Having said this, she turned around, and she sees Jesus standing there, and she did not know that it was Jesus.

• John 20:16

  Jesus says to her, “Mary!” Turning, she says to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!” (which means Teacher).

• Acts 7:39

  Our fathers were not willing to be obedient to him, but they pushed him away and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

• Acts 7:42

  But God turned away and handed them over to worship the army of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘You did not offer me slaughtered victims and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, did you, house of Israel?

• Acts 13:46

  And Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly and said, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you reject it and judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life, look, we are turning to the nations.

• Revelation 11:6

  These have the authority to shut the sky, so that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying; and they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they want.