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Noah Webster's Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.

2. (v. t.) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.

3. (v. i.) To overthrow anything from the foundation; to be subversive.

Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia

SUBVERT

sub-vurt' (`awath; anatrepo): Occurs 5 t:

(1) in the sense of overturning, etc., as the translation of `awath, "to make bent or crooked" (Lamentations 3:36), "to subvert a man in his cause"; of anaskeudzo, primarily, "to pack up baggage"; then, "to ravage," etc. (Acts 15:24, "subverting your souls"); of anatrepo, "to turn upside down," "to overturn" (Titus 1:11, "who subvert whole houses," the Revised Version (British and American) "overthrow"); of katastrophe, "overthrow," "destruction" (2 Timothy 2:14, "to the subverting of them that hear");

(2) in the sense of perverting: ekstrepho, "to turn or twist out" "to turn about" (Titus 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" (Proverbs 19:3), "subverteth."

W. L. Walker

Multi-Version Concordance

Subvert (4 Occurrences)

Titus 1:11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. (KJV DBY WBS)

Psalms 119:78 Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts. (See NAS RSV)

Psalms 146:9 Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert. (DBY)

Lamentations 3:36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn't approve. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)




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