ἀναστρέφω
anastrephō
to live/return
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredBased 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.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
9 total occurrences across the text
But the officers who came didn’t find them in the prison. They returned and reported,
Acts 15:16‘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
2 Corinthians 1:12For 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.
Ephesians 2:3We 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.
1 Timothy 3:15but 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.
Hebrews 10:33partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
Hebrews 13:18Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
1 Peter 1:17If 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,
2 Peter 2:18For, 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;