Streblóō — G4761

Definition

verb

to wrench, i.e. (specially), to torture (by the rack), but only figuratively, to pervert

1. to torture, put to the rack
2. metaphorically, to pervert, of one who wrests or tortures language to a false sense

Usually translated as

wrest

Origin

from a derivative of G4762

• stréphō (G4762)

Occurrences

Streblóō occurs 1 time in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Peter (1)

• 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 (στρεβλοῦσιν), as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.