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To return

ὑποστρέφωStrong’s G5290

hupostrephō

Appears in 35 verses of the New Testament

In short

Hupostrephō is the Greek word usually translated “returned”, “having returned” and “returning”. It appears in 35 verses of the New Testament.

“For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.”
2 Peter 2:21 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “returned”, “having returned” and “returning”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • returned 9
  • having returned 6
  • they returned 5
  • returning 4
  • to return 3
  • turned back 2
  • do return 1
  • i will return 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Luke 21
  • Acts 11
  • Galatians 1
  • Hebrews 1
  • 2 Peter 1

5 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 35 verses, by book
Galatians 1
1:17
Hebrews 1
7:1
2 Peter 1
2:21
Greek dictionary

ὑποστρέφω hupostrephō · to return

ὑπο-στρέφω [in LXX chiefly for שׁוּב ], 1. trans., to turn back or about (Hem.). 2. Intrans., to turn back, return: Luk.2:20, 43 8:37, 40 9:10 10:17 17:15 19:12 23:48, 56, Act.8:28; with inf., Luk.17:18; before διά, Act.20:3; εἰς, Luk.1:56 2:45 4:14 7:10 8:3 9:8 11:24 24:33, 52, Act.1:12 8:25 13:13, 34 14:21 21:6 22:17 23:32, Gal.1:17; ἀπό, Luk.4:1 24:9, Heb.7:1; ἐκ, Act.12:25, 2Pe.2:21.† (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.]

  1. To come or go back to the same place.
  2. To come to the same state; as, to return from bondage to a state of freedom.
  3. To answer.
  4. To come again; to revisit.
All definitions and other forms of “return”
  1. To appear or begin again after a periodical revolution.
  2. To show fresh signs of mercy.“RETURN, O Lord, deliver my soul” Psalms 6:4

RETURN', verb transitive

  1. To bring, carry or send back; as, to return a borrowed book; to return a hired horse.
  2. To repay; as, to return borrowed money.
  3. To give in recompense or requital.“The Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thy own head” 1 Kings 2:44
  4. To give back in reply; as, to return an answer.
  5. To tell, relate or communicate.“And Moses returned the words of the people to the Lord” Exodus 19:8
  6. To retort; to recriminate.
  7. To render an account, usually an official account to a superior.
  8. To render back to a tribunal or to an office; as, to return a writ or an execution.
  9. To report officially; as, an officer returns his proceedings on the back of a writ or precept.
  10. To send; to transmit; to convey.

RETURN', noun

  1. The act of coming or going back to the same place.
  2. The act of sending back; as the return of a borrowed book or of money lent.
  3. The act of putting in the former place.
  4. Retrogression; the act of moving back.
  5. The act or process of coming back to a former state; as the return of health.
  6. Revolution; a periodical coming to the same point; as the return of the sun to the tropic of Cancer.
  7. Periodical renewal; as the return of the seasons or of the year.
  8. Repayment; reimbursement in kind or in something equivalent, for money expended or advanced, or for labor.
  9. Profit; advantage.
  10. Remittance; payment from a distant place.
  11. Repayment; retribution; requital.
  12. Act of restoring or giving back; restitution.
  13. Either of the adjoining sides of the front of a house or ground-plot, is called a return side.
  14. 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.
  15. A day in bank.
  16. 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.