ὑποστρέφω hupostrephō

Greek word for “to return” · Strong’s G5290 · used 35 times in 35 verses

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Meaning

ὑπο-στρέφω; 1. trans., to turn back or about (Hem.).;

How it is translated

Glosses given for hupostrephō in context, with how often each is used:

• returned 15
• having returned 6
• returning 4
• return 3
• turned back 2
• do return 1
• will return 1
• returning home 1
• travelling back 1
• have turned 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Luke 2 (3), Luke 8 (3), Luke 24 (3), Luke 4 (2), Luke 17 (2), Luke 23 (2), Acts 8 (2), Acts 13 (2), Luke 1 (1), Luke 7 (1)

Forms

• ὑπέστρεψαν 9
• ὑπέστρεψεν 6
• ὑποστρέφειν 4
• ὑποστρέψαντες 3
• ὑποστρέψαι 2
• ὑπέστρεφον 2
• ὑποστρέψασαι 2
• ὑπόστρεφε 1
• Ὑπέστρεψαν 1
• ὑποστρέψω 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with hupostrephō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• Ἱερουσαλήμ Hierousalēm “Jerusalem” 7
• εὑρίσκω ehuriskō “to find/meet” 5
• οἶκος oikos “house” 4
• ἀπέρχομαι aperchomai “to go away” 4
• τε te “and/both” 4
• Ἱεροσόλυμα Hierosoluma “Jerusalem” 3
• ἕνδεκα hendeka “eleven” 2
• διηγέομαι diēgeomai “to relate fully” 2
• περίχωρος perichōros “region” 2
• σύν sun “with” 3
• μήν mēn “month” 2
• πόλις polis “city” 3

Key verses

The verses using hupostrephō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Luke 4:1 — And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
• Luke 8:37 — Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into…
• Luke 9:10 — And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the…
• Luke 11:24 — When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I…
• Luke 17:15 — And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,
• Luke 19:12 — He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
• Luke 23:56 — And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
• Acts 13:13 — Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.
• Acts 13:34 — And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
• Acts 14:21 — And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,
• Hebrews 7:1 — For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
• 2 Peter 2:21 — For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.