# G3344 μεταστρέφω

μεταστρέφω (metastréphō), Strong’s G3344: to turn across, i.e. transmute or (figuratively) corrupt KJV: pervert, turn. Occurs 26 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/G3344 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*metastréphō* — to turn across, i.e. transmute or (figuratively) corrupt

KJV: pervert, turn

Built from [μετά metá](https://besorah.bible/word/G3326) (denoting accompaniment) + [στρέφω stréphō](https://besorah.bible/word/G4762) (to twist, i.e. turn quite around or reverse)

Occurs 26 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Acts 2:20](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/2?v=20) — The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
- [Galatians 1:7](https://besorah.bible/besorah/galatians/1?v=7) — but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Messiah.
- [1 Esdras 3:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-esdras/3?v=20) — It also turns every thought into cheer and mirth, so that a man remembers neither sorrow nor debt.
- [1 Esdras 7:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-esdras/7?v=15) — because he had turned the counsel of the king of Assyria toward them, to strengthen their hands in the works of the…
- [Sirach 11:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/11?v=29) — 
- [Sirach 39:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/39?v=23) — As he has made the waters salty, so the heathen will inherit his wrath.
- [1 Maccabees 9:41](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-maccabees/9?v=41) — So the wedding was turned into mourning, and the voice of their musicians into lamentation.
- [3 Maccabees 5:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/3-maccabees/5?v=8) — to overthrow the evil purpose which had gone out against them, and to deliver them by extraordinary manifestation from…
- [3 Maccabees 6:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/3-maccabees/6?v=22) — The king’s wrath was converted into compassion; and he wept at the things he had devised.