στρεβλόωstreblóō
GreekG47611 occurrences (KJV)
to wrench, i.e. (specially), to torture (by the rack), but only figuratively, to pervert
KJV renders it: wrest
Where it appears
- 2 Pet 3:16as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.