G4761

στρεβλόω

strebloō

Verb · From a derivative of στρέφω (G4762)

From a derivative of G4762; to wrench, i.e. (specially), to torture (by the rack), but only figuratively, to pervert:—wrest.

Outline

to twist, turn awry
to torture, put to the rack
metaph. to pervert, of one who wrests or tortures language in a false sense

Usages

2 Peter 3:16

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

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