STRONGS G4761:
στρεβλόω,
στρέβλω; (
στρεβλός (from
στρέφω) twisted, Latin
tortuosus; hence,
στρέβλη, feminine, an instrument of torture);
to twist, turn awry (Herodotus); to torture, put to the rack (
Aristophanes,
Plato,
Demosthenes,
Polybius,
Josephus, 3Macc. 4:14); metaphorically,
to pervert, of one who wrests or tortures language to a false sense,
2 Peter 3:16.
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