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στρεβλόω

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Forms of the word
Dictionary: 
στρεβλόω
Greek transliteration: 
strebloō
Simplified transliteration: 
strebloo
Principal Parts: 
-, -, -, -, -
Numbers
Strong's number: 
4761
GK Number: 
5137
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament: 
1
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag: 
v-1d(3)
Gloss: 
to distort, twist
Definition: 
pr. to distort the limbs on a rack; met. to wrench, distort, pervert, 2 Pet. 3:16*

Greek-English Concordance for στρεβλόω

2 Peter 3:16 as he does in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters, in which are some things hard to understand, things that the ignorant and unstable distort (streblousin | στρεβλοῦσιν | pres act ind 3 pl) to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.