To distort
στρεβλόωStrong’s G4761strebloō
Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament
In short
Strebloō is the Greek word usually translated “distort”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.
“As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.”
Meaning
Usually translated “distort”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- distort 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Peter 1
1 book in all.
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Greek dictionary
στρεβλόω strebloō · to distort
στρεβλόω, -ῶ (στρέφω), [in LXX: 2Ki.22:27 (פָּתַל hithp.), 3Ma.4:14, 4Ma.9:17 4Mac 12:4 4Mac 12:11 4Mac 15:14 * ;] to twist, torture. Metaphorical (cf. 2Ki, l.with), to twist or pervert language: 2Pe.3:16.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “distort” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DISTORT, verb transitive
[Latin, to twist.]
- To twist out of natural or regular shape; as, to distort the neck, the limbs or the body; to distort the features.
- To force or put out of the true posture or direction.
- To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of scripture, or their meaning.
All definitions and other forms of “distort”
DISTORT, adjective
Distorted.
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.