G4761 Greek

στρεβλόω

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

KJV Translations of G4761

wrest

Word Origin & Derivation

from a derivative of G4762 (στρέφω);

G4762 στρέφω (stréphō)

to twist, i.e. turn quite around or reverse (literally or figuratively)

G4761 in the King James Bible

1 verse
2 Peter 3:16 στρεβλοῦσιν

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, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.