To live/return
ἀναστρέφωStrong’s G0390anastrephō
Appears in 9 verses of the New Testament
In short
Anastrephō is the Greek word usually translated “having returned”, “return” and “we have conducted ourselves”. It appears in 9 verses of the New Testament.
“But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”
Meaning
Usually translated “having returned”, “return” and “we have conducted ourselves”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- having returned 1
- i will return 1
- we have conducted ourselves 1
- lived 1
- to conduct oneself 1
- passing through 1
- to conduct ourselves 1
- do conduct yourselves 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 2
- Hebrews 2
- 2 Corinthians 1
- Ephesians 1
- 1 Timothy 1
- 1 Peter 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Peter 2:18In contextFor when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
- Acts 5:22But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,
- Acts 15:16After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
- 2 Corinthians 1:12For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
- Ephesians 2:3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
- Hebrews 10:33Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
Greek dictionary
ἀναστρέφω anastrephō · to live/return
ἀνα-στρέφω [in LXX chiefly for שׁוּב ;] 1. to overturn: Jhn.2:15. 2. to turn back, return: Act.5:22 15:16. 3. to turn hither and thither; pass., to turn oneself about, sojourn, dwell: Mat.17:22 Rec.; metaphorically (like Heb. הָלַךְ, in κοινή writers and in π.; see Deiss., LAE, 315; BS, 88, 194; MM, VGT, see word), to conduct oneself, behave, live: 2Co.1:12, Eph.2:3, 1Ti.3:15, Heb.10:33 13:18, 1Pe.1:17, 2Pe.2:18. † SYN.: περιπατέω (Hellenistic), πολιτεύω (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “return” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RETURN, verb intransitive
[Latin torno.]
- To come or go back to the same place.
- To come to the same state; as, to return from bondage to a state of freedom.
- To answer.
- To come again; to revisit.
All definitions and other forms of “return”
- To appear or begin again after a periodical revolution.
- To show fresh signs of mercy.“RETURN, O Lord, deliver my soul” Psalms 6:4
RETURN', verb transitive
- To bring, carry or send back; as, to return a borrowed book; to return a hired horse.
- To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
- To give in recompense or requital.“The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thy own head” 1 Kings 2:44
- To give back in reply; as, to return an answer.
- To tell, relate or communicate.“And Moses returned the words of the people to the Lord” Exodus 19:8
- To retort; to recriminate.
- To render an account, usually an official account to a superior.
- To render back to a tribunal or to an office; as, to return a writ or an execution.
- To report officially; as, an officer returns his proceedings on the back of a writ or precept.
- To send; to transmit; to convey.
RETURN', noun
- The act of coming or going back to the same place.
- The act of sending back; as the return of a borrowed book or of money lent.
- The act of putting in the former place.
- Retrogression; the act of moving back.
- The act or process of coming back to a former state; as the return of health.
- Revolution; a periodical coming to the same point; as the return of the sun to the tropic of Cancer.
- Periodical renewal; as the return of the seasons or of the year.
- Repayment; reimbursement in kind or in something equivalent, for money expended or advanced, or for labor.
- Profit; advantage.
- Remittance; payment from a distant place.
- Repayment; retribution; requital.
- Act of restoring or giving back; restitution.
- Either of the adjoining sides of the front of a house or ground-plot, is called a return side.
- In law, the rendering back or delivery of a writ, precept or execution, to the proper officer or court; or the certificate of the officer executing it, indorsed.
- A day in bank.
- In military and naval affairs, an official account, report or statement rendered to the commander; as the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, ammunition, etc.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.