ἀναστρέφω
anastrephō (G0390)
to live/return
AI Word Study
Based on the provided data, the word ἀναστρέφω (anastrephō) is a Greek verb that means "to live/return" (G0390). This definition already suggests a dual aspect, encompassing both continuity and change. The word is used 9 times in the Bible. Its meaning implies a sense of reversal, implying that life or a person returns to a condition, a state, or perhaps an activity that was previously experienced. This suggests a connection between past and present, as well as a possible sense of renewal or rebirth. Given its specific usage in the Bible, it is reasonable to infer that ἀναστρέφō has a range of applications that involve themes of renewal, transformation, or cycles in life, including possible connections to the natural world, spiritual rejuvenation, or even the cyclical nature of life events.
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But the officers who came didn’t find them in the prison. They returned and reported,
‘After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;