Topic
Subvert
7 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Job 19:6ISBE
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
- Proverbs 19:3ISBE
The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
- Lamentations 3:36ISBE
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
- Acts 15:24ISBE
Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
- 2 Timothy 2:14ISBE
Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
- Titus 1:11ISBE
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
- Titus 3:11ISBE
Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 7 references
sub-vurt' (`awath; anatrepo): Occurs 5 t:
(1) in the sense of overturning, etc., as the translation of `awath, "to make bent or crooked" (La 3:36), "to subvert a man in his cause"; of anaskeudzo, primarily, "to pack up baggage"; then, "to ravage," etc. (Ac 15:24, "subverting your souls"); of anatrepo, "to turn upside down," "to overturn" (Tit 1:11, "who subvert whole houses," the Revised Version (British and American) "overthrow"); of katastrophe, "overthrow," "destruction" (2Ti 2:14, "to the subverting of them that hear");
(2) in the sense of perverting: ekstrepho, "to turn or twist out" "to turn about" (Tit 3:11, "such is subverted," the Revised Version (British and American) "perverted"). For "overthrown me" (Job 19:6) the Revised Version (British and American) has "subverted me (in my cause)," margin "overthrown me"; for "perverteth" (Pr 19:3), "subverteth."
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.