Lexicon anastrephó: to overturn, turn back Original Word: ἀναστρέφωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: anastrephó Phonetic Spelling: (an-as-tref'-o) Short Definition: I overturn, turn upside down, return, mid. and pass: I conduct myself, live Definition: I overturn; I turn back, return; I turn hither and thither; pass: I turn myself about; I sojourn, dwell; I conduct myself, behave, live. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom  ana and  strephóDefinitionto overturn, turn back NASB Translationconduct (3), conducted (1), live (1), lived (1), return (1), returned (1), treated (1). 
 Thayer's STRONGS NT 390: ἀναστρέφωἀναστρέφω: future  ἀναστρέψω; (1 aorist  ἀνέστρεψα; passive, present  ἀναστρέφομαι); 2 aorist  ἀνεστραφην;  1. to turn upside down, overturn: τάς τραπέζας, John 2:15, (δίφρους, Homer, Iliad 23, 436).  2. to turn back; intransitive, (Winers Grammar, 251 (236)] to returns, like the Latinreverto equivalent torevertor (as in Greek writings; in the Sept. equivalent to שׁוּב): Acts 5:22; Acts 15:16 (here ἀναστρεψα καί has not like the Hebrew שׁוּב the force of an adverb, again, but God in the Messiah's advent returns to his people, whom he is conceived of as having previously abandoned; cf. Winer's Grammar, 469 (437)).  3. to turn hither and thither; passive reflexively, to turn oneself about, sojourn, dwell, ἐν in a place;  a. literally: Matthew 17:22, where L T WH Tr text συστρεφομένων, cf. Keim, ii., p. 581 (English translation, iv., p. 303). (Joshua 5:5; Ezekiel 19:6, and in Greek writings)  b. like the Hebrew הָלַך to walk, of the manner of life and moral character, to conduct oneself, behave oneself, live: 2 Corinthians 1:12 (ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ); 1 Timothy 3:15 (ἐν οἴκῳ θεοῦ); Ephesians 2:3 (ἐν οἷς among whom); 2 Peter 2:18 (ἐν πλάνη). simply "to conduct or behave oneself, 'walk'," (German wandeln): 1 Peter 1:17; Hebrews 10:33; (καλῶς) . (Cf. its use e. g. in Xenophon, an. 2, 5, 14; Polybius 1, 9, 7; 74, 13; 86, 5 etc. (see  ἀναστροφή, at the end); Proverbs 20:7 the Sept.; Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 1, 21, 8 [ET]; etc.)   
 
 
 
  Strong's abide, overturn, return From ana and strepho; to overturn; also to return; by implication, to busy oneself, i.e. Remain, live -- abide, behave self, have conversation, live, overthrow, pass, return, be used.  see GREEK ana  see GREEK strepho   |