Quick Definition
I turn aside, wander, forsake
Strong's Definition
to deflect, i.e. turn away (literally or figuratively)
Derivation: from G1537 (ἐκ) and the base of G5157 (τροπή);
KJV Usage: avoid, turn (aside, out of the way)
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἐκτρέπω: passive (present ἐκτρέπομαι); 2 aorist ἐξετραπην; 2 future ἐκτραπήσομαι;
1. to turn or twist out; passive in a medical sense, in a figurative sense of the limbs: ἵνα μή τό χωλόν ἐκτραπῇ, lest it be wrenched out of (its proper) place, dislocated (R. V. marginal reading put out of joint) (see examples of this use from medical writers in Stephanus' Thesaurus iii. col. 607 d.), i. e. lest he who is weak in a state of grace fall therefrom, Heb_12:13 (but Lünem., Delitzsch, others, still adhere to the meaning turn aside, go astray; cf. A. V., R. V. text).
2. to turn off or aside; passive in a middle sense (cf. Buttmann, 192 (166f)), to turn oneself aside, to be turned aside; (intransitive) to turn aside; Hesychius: ἐξετράπησαν. ἐξέκλιναν (τῆς ὁδοῦ, Lucian, dial. deor. 25, 2; Aelian v. h. 14, 49 (48); ἔξω τῆς ὁδοῦ, Arrian exp. Al. 3, 21 , 7 (4); absolutely Xenophon, an. 4, 5, 15; Aristophanes Plutarch, 837; with mention of the place to which, Herodotus 6, 34; Plato, Sophocles, p. 222 a.; others); figuratively: εἰς ματαιολογίαν, 1Ti_1:6; ἐπί τούς μύθους, 2Ti_4:4; ὀπίσω τίνος, to turn away from one in order to follow another, 1Ti_5:15 (εἰς ἀδίκους πράξεις, Josephus, Antiquities 8, 10, 2). with the accusative to turn away from, to shun a thing, to avoid meeting or associating with one: τάς κενοφωνίας, 1Ti_6:20, (τόν ἔλεγχον, Polybius 35, 4, 14; Γαλλους ἐκτρέπεσθαι καί σύνοδον φεύγειν τήν μετ' αὐτῶν, Josephus, Antiquities 4, 8, 40).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἐκτρέπω ektrepō 5x
mid. and pass., to turn out or aside, Heb_12:13 ; to turn aside or away, swerve, 1Ti_1:6 ; 1Ti_5:15 ; 2Ti_4:4 ; to turn from, avoid, 1Ti_6:20
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἐκ -τρέπω ,
[in LXX for H2015 , Amo_5:8 * ;]
to turn out of the course, turn aside , c . acc Pass ., with middle sense, intrans ., to turn aside: Heb_12:13 ( R , txt ., for be put out of joint , R , mg ., v. Thayer , s.v. Westc ., in l ); fig ., seq . εἰς , 1Ti_1:6 ; ἐπί , 2Ti_4:4 ; ὀπίσω , 1Ti_5:15 ; c . acc , to shun, avoid: 1Ti_6:20 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἐκτρέπω [page 199]
In P Ryl II. 133 .22 (A.D. 33) the mention of the danger of fields being left unsown εἰς ἄσπορον ἐκτραπῆν [α ]ι shows the verb in a more general sense than in the possible medical reference in Heb_12:13 ἵνα μὴ τὸ χωλὸν ἐκτραπῇ , be put out of joint (RV mg.). For the meaning turn aside, as in 1Ti_1:6 , we may compare Epict. i. 6. 42 οἱ δ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἀγεννείας εἰς μέμψεις καὶ [τὰ ] ἐγκλήματα τῷ θεῷ ἐκτρεπόμενοι , and for the acc. constr., as in 1Ti_6:20 , see Oenoanda col. 29, 7 ἐ . δεῖ τοὺς σοφιστικοὺς λόγους (cited by Nδgeli, p. 19), and Musonius p. 26 .4 τὰ μὲν ἀληθῶς κακὰ πάσῃ μηχανῇ ἐκτρέπεσθαι .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἐκτρέπω ionic -τράπω fut. ψω "to turn out of the course, to turn aside", c. acc., Hdt. , attic:—Pass. and Mid., c. gen. "to turn aside from", Soph. : absol. "to turn aside", Hdt. , Xen. "to turn" a person "off the road, order" him "out of the way", Soph. :—Pass. and Mid., ἐκτρέπεσθαί τινα "to get out of" one's "way, avoid" him, Dem. τὴν δρῶσαν ἐκτρέπειν "to prevent" her from acting, Soph. ἀσπίδας θύρσοις ἐκτρ. "to turn" shields "and flee before" the thyrsus, Eur.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἐκ-τρέπω
[in LXX for הָפַךְ, Amo.5:8 * ;]
to turn out of the course, turn aside, with accusative Pass., with middle sense, intrans., to turn aside: Heb.12:13 (R, txt., for be put out of joint, R, mg., see Thayer, see word Westc., in l); figuratively, before εἰς, 1Ti.1:6; ἐπί, 2Ti.4:4; ὀπίσω, 1Ti.5:15; with accusative, to shun, avoid: 1Ti.6:20.†
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