To pervert

Usually translated “perverted”, “misleading” and “turn away”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• perverted 4
• misleading 1
• to turn away 1
• perverting 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Acts 3
• Luke 2
• Matthew 1
• Philippians 1

4 books in all.

• To pervert (avah)
• To pervert (avat)
• To pervert (salaph)
• To twist (aqal)

• Luke 9:41And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.
• Luke 23:2And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
• Acts 13:8But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
• Acts 13:10And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
• Acts 20:30Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
• Philippians 2:15That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “perverted” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.