epistrofas

Strong’sG1995

a turning to God

stem epistrof-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ἐπι-στροφή, -ῆς, ἡ

(ἐπιστρέφω) [in LXX: Ez 47:7 (שׁוּב), Si 18:21 49:2, etc.;]

a turning about; metaph., conversion (Field, Notes, 246): Ac 15:3.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1995 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidep-is-trof-ay'

reversion, i.e. morally, revolution

Fromfrom G1994;

King Jamesconversion.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἐπιστροφ-ή,ἡ,
turning about, τῆς τοῦ ἀτράκτου δίνης Refs 5th c.BC+; twisting, Refs 4th c.BC+; of strands, Refs 3rd c.BC+
2. bending of a bow, Refs 1st c.BC+
3. curve, winding of a bay, Refs; of a river, Refs 1st c.BC+
II. intransitive, turning or wheeling about, δαΐων ἀνδρῶν ἐπιστροφαί, i.e. hostile men turning to bay, Refs 5th c.BC+; tossing, of a restless patient, Refs 5th c.BC+; μυρίων ἐπιστροφαὶ κακῶν renewed assaults of ills unnumbered, Refs 5th c.BC+; wheeling through a right angle, Refs 1st c.BC+; of ships, putting about, tacking, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐξ ἐπιστροφῆς by a sudden wheel, Refs 2nd c.BC+; but ἐξ ἐπιστροφῆς παθεῖν to have a relapse, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2. turn of affairs, reaction, counter-revolution, μή τις ἐ. γένηται Refs 5th c.BC+; result, end, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.3. attention paid to a person or thing (ἐπιστρέφω Refs. respect for guests, Refs 4th c.BC+; πρὸ τοῦ θανόντος τήνδ᾽ ἔθεσθ᾽ ἐ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ὧν ἐ. τις ἦν to whom any regard was due, Refs 5th c.BC+; so ἐπιστροφῆς ἄξιον Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐ. ποιεῖσθαι Philipp. cited in Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐ. ἔχειν τινός Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐπιστροφῆς τυγχάνειν Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.3.b. Philos., turning towards, πρὸς τὰ τῇδε Refs 3rd c.AD+; ψυχὴ καταδεῖται πρὸς τὸ σῶμα τῇ ἐ. τῇ πρὸς τὰ πάθη τὰ ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ Refs 3rd c.AD+
II.4. moving up and down in a place, mostly in plural, πατρῴων δωμάτων ἐπιστροφαί the range of them, Refs 4th c.BC+; οἷσιν οὐκ ἐπιστροφαί men who have no business here, Refs 5th c.BC+; βούνομοι ἐ. haunts of the grazing herds, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.5 intentness, vehemence, ἐπιστροφὴν εἶχεν ὁ λόγος καὶ ἔρρωτο Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.5.b gravity of deportment, ἡ ἐ. τοῦ εἴδους Refs
II.6 correction, reproof, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.7 conversion, NT+5th c.AD+
II.8 in Philos., return to the source of Being, Refs 3rd c.AD+; [ἡ ἐ.] τοῦ προελθόντος ἐπάνοδος εἰς τὸ γεννῆσαν Refs 5th c.AD+
II.9 in Logic, conversion of a proposition, ἡ σὺν ἀντιθέσει ἐ. the contraposition, Suppl.ad Refs 5th c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

conversion1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	epistrofas	epistrofais
object accusative	epistrofan1×ἐπιστροφὴν	epistrofain
direct address vocative	epistrofar	epistrofair
of, belonging to genitive	epistrofau	epistrofaiu
to, for dative	epistrofa	epistrofai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

epistrofstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

epistrofa is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

epistrofan“conversion”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 15:3… tē Foinikan kai Samareian ekdiēgorōntois tan epistrofan teiu ethneiu, kai poiale charan megan …… through Phoenicia and Samaria, recounting the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great …