UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

Sense 1: to cause someone to turn away from a belief, to mislead

Semantic entry: 31.71

Semantic domains: Hold a View, Believe, Trust

Subdomains: Change an Opinion Concerning Truth

Definition: to cause someone to believe something that is quite different{N:001}

Notes: For another interpretation of διαστρέφω in RV LUK 23:2 · LV LUK 23:2 · Read together LUK 23:2, see 88.264: ἀποστρέφω / 88.264: διαστρέφω.

Sense 2: to lead astray, to pervert, to mislead

Semantic entry: 88.264

Semantic domains: Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior

Subdomains: Licentiousness, Perversion

Definition: to cause someone to depart from correct behavior and thus engage in serious wrongdoing

Notes: For another interpretation of διαστρέφω in RV LUK 23:2 · LV LUK 23:2 · Read together LUK 23:2, see 31.71: διαστρέφω. In rendering διαστρέφω as ‘to pervert,’ one should not understand the meaning in terms of ‘sexual perversion.’ In speaking of ‘perverting our people’ in RV LUK 23:2 · LV LUK 23:2 · Read together LUK 23:2, it would be better in most languages to translate ‘to cause our people to go astray’ or ‘to cause them to do what they certainly should not do.’

Sense 3: to turn away from, to divert from

Semantic entry: 13.46

Semantic domains: Be, Become, Exist, Happen

Subdomains: State

Definition: to cause a state to cease by a diversion to some other state, usually with the implication of a wrong state