verb

Greekστρεβλόω (strebloō)

Biblang

streblamō

Strong’sG4761

I rack, pervert, twist

stem strebl-once in the New Testament1 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.

στρεβλόω, -ῶ

(< στρέφω), [in LXX: II Ki 22:27 (פּתל hithp.), III Mac 4:14, IV Mac 9:17 12:4, 11 15:14 *;]

to twist, torture. Metaph. (cf. II Ki, l.c.), to twist or pervert language: II Pe 3:16.†

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

Strong’s G4761 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidstreb-lo'-o

to wrench, i.e. (specially), to torture (by the rack), but only figuratively, to pervert

Fromfrom a derivative of G4762;

King Jameswrest.

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

στρεβλ-όω,
future -ώσωRefs 1st c.AD+: aorist ἐστρέβλωσα Refs 4th c.BC+:—twist or strain tight, ὄνοισι ξυλίνοισι τὰ ὅπλα drawing the cables taut with windlasses Refs 5th c.BC+; screw up the strings of an instrument, τὰς χορδὰς ἐπὶ τῶν κολλόπων στρεβλοῦν Refs 5th c.BC+
II twist or wrench a dislocated limb, with a view to setting it, σ. τὸν πόδα Refs 5th c.BC+; also of wrestlers, Refs 2nd c.AD+ (passive):—middle, ἐς τοὐπίσω τὰς χεῖρας σ. Refs 4th c.AD+:—passive, στρεβλωθῆναι acquire a squint, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.2 stretch on the wheel or rack, to rack, torture, applied to slaves for the purpose of extracting evidence, Refs 5th c.BC+:—passive, ἐπὶ τροχοῦ στρεβλούμενος Refs 5th c.BC+future middle στρεβλώσομαι in passive sense, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 metaphorically, pervert or distort words, NT:—passive, LXX

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.

twist1×

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

Biblang forms

What the New Testament actually uses, first — the whole system this verb is built from is one click further down.

Form and the Greek behind it	What it is	Usually	Times
streblalōστρεβλοῦσιν	happening now · theypresent active indicative 3rd person plural	twist	1×

Every form the New Testament uses, in paradigm order. What the system can build beyond them — the whole of this verb, whether the text happens to use it or not — is in the tables below.

Every form the system can build — all 86, by mood, including the ones the New Testament never uses

Statements — indicative mood, 1 occurrence

Who person	happening now present	was happening imperfect	will happen future	happened aorist	has happened perfect	had happened pluperfect
I 1st person singular	streblamō	streblame	streblami	streblama	streblamē	streblamelē
you 2nd person singular	streblasō	streblase	streblasi	streblasa	streblasē	streblaselē
he/she/it 3rd person singular	streblatō	streblate	streblati	streblata	streblatē	streblatelē
we 1st person plural	streblanō	streblane	streblani	streblana	streblanē	streblanelē
ye 2nd person plural	streblavō	streblave	streblavi	streblava	streblavē	streblavelē
they 3rd person plural	streblalō1×στρεβλοῦσιν	streblale	streblali	streblala	streblalē	streblalelē

May, might — subjunctive mood, no occurrences

Who person	happening now present	happened aorist	has happened perfect
I 1st person singular	streblameiō	streblameia	streblameiē
you 2nd person singular	streblaseiō	streblaseia	streblaseiē
he/she/it 3rd person singular	streblateiō	streblateia	streblateiē
we 1st person plural	streblaneiō	streblaneia	streblaneiē
ye 2nd person plural	streblaveiō	streblaveia	streblaveiē
they 3rd person plural	streblaleiō	streblaleia	streblaleiē

Commands — imperative mood, no occurrences

Who person	happening now present	happened aorist	has happened perfect
you 2nd person singular	streblasōr	streblasar	streblasēr
he/she/it 3rd person singular	streblatōr	streblatar	streblatēr
ye 2nd person plural	streblavōr	streblavar	streblavēr
they 3rd person plural	streblalōr	streblalar	streblalēr

Wishes — optative mood, no occurrences

Who person	happening now present	happened aorist
I 1st person singular	streblamoiō	streblamoia
you 2nd person singular	streblasoiō	streblasoia
he/she/it 3rd person singular	streblatoiō	streblatoia
we 1st person plural	streblanoiō	streblanoia
ye 2nd person plural	streblavoiō	streblavoia
they 3rd person plural	streblaloiō	streblaloia

The “to …” form — infinitive, no occurrences

Who is acting voice	happening now present	will happen future	happened aorist	has happened perfect
the subject acts active voice	streblarō	streblari	streblara	streblarē

Used as an adjective — participle, no occurrences

Who is acting voice	happening now present	will happen future	happened aorist	has happened perfect
the subject acts active voice	streblarōntos	streblarintos	streblarantos	streblarēntos

Each is given in the form it takes as a subject. From there a participle carries the ordinary noun endings, in every case, number and gender — so these four columns are the whole of what the verb contributes.

How every form is built — the slots that make them

streblstem+aoeiwho is acting voice+mstnvl—who person+—eiroistatement, command, wish mood+ōeiaēelēwhen tense+—ntthen it declines+—ogender+—sits job in the sentence case

strebl 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

streblalō“twist”happening now · theypresent active indicative 3rd person plural1×

2 Peter 3:16“twist”… tineim, heim tois amathois kai astēriktois streblalō hōs kai tain loipain grafain pros …… such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own …