Strong's Greek · G4761
G4761 streblóō
στρεβλόω
streb-lo'-o
to distort
Looking for Hebrew H4761 marʼâshâh? It has the same number in Strong's Hebrew lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of G4761. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
streblóō appears once in Scripture, in 2 Peter 3:16. In the Doxa app, open that verse, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to wrench, i.e. (specially), to torture (by the rack), but only figuratively, to pervert
In the King James Version
wrest
Derivation
from a derivative of G4762 (στρέφω);
Appears 1 time in Scripture
“He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about 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 destruction.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
