STRONGS NUMBER G665


Word Summary
apotrepō: to turn away
Original Word: ἀποτρέπω
Transliteration: apotrepō
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-ot-rep'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to turn away
Meaning: to turn away
Strong's Concordance
turn away.

From apo and the base of trope; to deflect, i.e. (reflexively) avoid -- turn away.

see GREEK apo

see GREEK trope

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 665: ἀποτρέπω

ἀποτρέπω: (from Homer down); to turn away; middle (present ἀποτρέπομαι, imperative ἀποτρέπου) to turn oneself away from, to shun, avoid: τινα or τί (see ἀποστρέφω), 2 Timothy 3:5. (4 Macc. 1:33; Aeschylus the Sept. 1060; Euripides, Iph. Aul. 336; (Aristar. plant. 1, 1, p. 815b, 18; Polybius others.).)