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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Return:

"to depart" in Phl 1:23, signifies "to return" in Luk 12:36, used in a simile of the "return" of a lord for his servants after a marriage feast (RV).
See DEPART, No. 16.

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"to turn back," is translated "to return" in Act 5:22; 15:16.
See ABIDE, BEHAVE.

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"to turn about," or "towards," is translated "to return" in Mat 12:44; 24:18; Mar 13:16, RV (AV, "turn back again"); Luk 2:39; 8:55, RV (AV, "came again"); 17:31; Act 15:36, RV (AV, "go again").
See CONVERT, A, No. 2, TURN.

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"to turn behind," or "back" (hupo, "under"), is translated "to return" (in some texts in Mar 14:40) in Luk 1:56; 2:20, 43; Luk 2:45, RV (AV, "turned back again"); Luk 4:1, 14; 7:10; 8:37; 10:17; 11:24, AV (RV, "I will turn back"); Luk 17:18; 19:12; 23:48, 56; Act 1:12; 12:25; 13:13; 13:34; 20:3; 21:6; 22:17, RV (AV, "was come again"); 23:32; Gal 1:17; Hbr 7:1.
See TURN (back).

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"to turn or bend back," occurs in Mat 2:12; Luk 10:6 (i.e., as if it was unsaid); Act 18:21; Hbr 11:15.

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"to bring up or back" (primarily a nautical term for "putting to sea;" see LAUNCH, PUT), is used intransitively, in Mat 21:18, "He returned."

Note: In Luk 19:15, AV, epanerchomai, "to come back again" (RV) is translated "returned."
See COME, No. 4.