Words the Bible translates as turn
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 15 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- shuvשׁוּבto turn back: to reverse a movement and retrace the way already taken, whether going home, sending something back, or turning toward or away from God
- epistrephōἐπιστρέφωto turn: to change direction so as to face or move toward something, whether a body turning around, a person going back to a place, or a heart turning to God
- savavסָבַבto turn: change the direction one is facing or moving, or send something a roundabout way
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- to go around: move in a circuit or circle around something, or run around a thing as a rim does
- to surround: close in around someone or something on every side
- to turn something over: hand it on, transfer it, or change it into something else
- panahפָּנָהto turn so as to face a direction, person, or thing, with all that the turn implies: to look toward, attend to, or move away from
- haphakhהָפַךְto turn something over, around, or back, so a new side or heading faces out
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- to overthrow and destroy, tearing a place down so completely that it is left upended in ruin
- to change one thing into its opposite, turning a state, condition, or substance into something else
- to pervert or twist, turning what is straight and right into something crooked
- strephōστρέφωto turn: to change the direction something faces, moves, or points
- metanoeōμετανοέωto turn your whole life back toward God: a deep change of heart, mind, and direction, not just a feeling of regret
- sugסוּגto turn back: to draw away from where one stood, whether retreating in defeat or falling away from someone once followed
- metagōμετάγωto turnnot studied yet
- ta'arתָּאַרto trace a line: to mark out where an edge runs, whether a boundary across the land or an outline on a block of wood
- teshuvahתְּשׁוּבָהa coming back around: the return of something to the point it set out from
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- an answer: what one side says back to the other in an argument
- ektrepōἐκτρέπωto turn/wander awaynot studied yet
- torתּוֹרa turn: the place a person holds in a fixed order of people waiting to be called forward
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- an encircling ornament worn at the head or face: either a braided circlet or a strung row of beads
- nesibbahנְסִבָּהturnnot studied yet
- sibbahסִבָּהturnnot studied yet
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