Strong G1667ἑλίσσω
to roll up
- Transliteration
- helissō
- Pronunciation
- hel-is'-so
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
A form of G1507; to coil or wrap: - fold up.
Detailed definition
ἑλίσσω
[in LXX: Isa.34:4 (גָּלַל ni.), Psa.102:26 (חָלַף hi.), etc.;]
to roll, roll up: Heb.1:12 (LXX), Rev.6:14.†
(AS)
[in LXX: Isa.34:4 (גָּלַל ni.), Psa.102:26 (חָלַף hi.), etc.;]
to roll, roll up: Heb.1:12 (LXX), Rev.6:14.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G1667 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- fold1
- up1
First verses
- Hebrews 1:12And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Same identity
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἑλίσσω
or ἐλίσσω (the latter more frequently in codices of [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus))], Attic dialect ἑλίττω, Epic dialect infinitive -έμεν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.309)]; Ionic dialect εἰλίσσω or εἱλίσσω (εἱ. is found in codices of [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (see. below), but κατ-ελίσσειν 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.(Sp.”) 37, κατειλίξαι [prev. author] “Morb.” 2.18, +others))]: future ἑλίξω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 711)]: aorist εἴλιξα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 73a (εἵλ-)] codices, but κατ-ειλίξας [Refs (“IG” 22.204.32))]; participle ἑλίξας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.466)], Ionic dialect εἰλίξας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.34)]:—middle, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.320)]: future ἑλίξομαι [Refs (17.728)]: aorist ἑλιξάμην [Refs (12.467, 17.283)]:—passive,future ἑλιγήσομαι [LXX (LXX.Isa.34.4)]: aorist 1 εἱλίχθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 358)]; participle ἑλιχθείς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.74)]: perfect εἵλιγμαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 791, ἐλήλιγμαι 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 10.17.12)]: pluperfect εἵλικτο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 927)]; Ionic dialect 3rd.pers. plural εἱλίχατο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.90.)] —The _Ionic dialect_ form is found in Trag. (see. below, codices usually εἱλ-; but τ᾽ εἰ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 138 (Lyric poetry, codex _middle_),compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1314, 1348 (codex Rav.)), in “IG” [same place], and codices of 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus (as “Ti.” [same place], ἀν-ειλίττων “Phlb.” 15e))]; ἐπειλίξας is falsa lectio in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.161. (ϝελ-, ἐϝελ-, compare εἴλω, ἐλελίζω ad near the end))]:—turn round or about: active in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] always of turning a chariot round the doublingpost, οἶσθα γὰρ εὖ περὶ τέρματ᾽ ἐλισσέμεν [ἵππους] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.309,compare 466.)]
2 generally, roll, ἑ. βίου πόρον roll life's stream along, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).15)]; of the chariot of Day, αἰθὴρ κοινὸν φάος εἱλίσσων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1092 (_anapaest meter_); ἥλιος.. εἱλίσσων φλόγα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 3)]; εἰ. κόνιν roll the eddying dust, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1085 (_anapaest meter_))]; ἑ. δίνας, of the Euripus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 7, compare 1103 (Lyric poetry))]; ἑ. κόρας, βλέφαρα, [Refs ([prev. author] “HF” 868 (troch.), “Or.” 1266 (Lyric poetry).)]
3 of any rapid motion, ἅλιον.. ἑ. πλάταν ply it swiflly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 358 (Lyric poetry))]; of the dance, ἑ. πόδα move the swift foot, conjecture in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 171 (Lyric poetry), compare “IA” 215 (Lyric poetry))]; εἱ. θιάσους lead the dancing bands, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “IT” 1145 (Lyric poetry); ἑ. χορούς 5th c.BC: Strattis Comicus 66.5)]: absolutely, dance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 234 (Lyric poetry), compare “Or.” 1292 (whence ἑ. τινά)] dance in honour of.., [Refs ([prev. author] “HF” 690 (Lyric poetry), “IA” 1480 (Lyric poetry)))]; ἑ. βωμόν dance round it, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 321.)]
4 roll or wind round, πλόκαμον περὶ ἄτρακτον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.34, compare 2.38)]; λίνον ἠλακάτᾳ δακτύλοις ἑ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1432 (Lyric poetry))]; χεῖρας ἀμφὶ γόνυ ἑ. clasp them round.., [Refs ([prev. author] “Ph.” 1622.)]
5 metaphorically, turn in one's mind, revolve, τοιαῦθ᾽ ἑ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 231, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epinomis” 978d; μῆτιν 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.463)]; ἑ. κακοὺς λόγους speak wily words, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 892.)]
6 κόλπους ἑ. form winding reaches, of rivers, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Dionysius Periegeta 630; ἀγκῶνας [prev. author] 979.)]
II middle and passive, turn oneself round or about (but in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.49 εἱλίσσεθ᾽ ἑταίρους (as read by Nicanor))] rallied his comrades), ἑλιχθέντων ὑπ᾽ Ἀχαιῶν when they turned to face the foe, [Refs ([prev. work] 74, compare 408)]; so of a wild boar, ἑλιξάμενος having turned to bay, [Refs (17.283)]; of a serpent, coil himself, ἑλισσόμενος περὶ χειῇ [Refs (22.95)]; ἡ δέ τ᾽ ἐλισσομένη πέτεται (i.e. καλαῦροψ) the shepherd's staff flies spinning through the air, [Refs (23.846)]; κνίση.. ἑλισσομένη περὶ καπνῷ rolling with the smoke, [Refs (1.317)]; ἑλισσόμενοι περὶ δίνας whirled round in the eddies, [Refs (21.11)]; of a river, δίνῃς ἀργυρέῃς εἱλιγμένος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 791, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.32)]; of the waves, τὸ ἑλισσόμενον αἰεὶ κυμάτων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.55)]; of ocean, ἑλίσσεσθαι περὶ πᾶσαν χθόνα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 138)]; ὧραι ἑλισσόμεναι the circling hours, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 4.3.)]
II.2 turn hither and thither, go about, ἀν᾽ ὅμιλον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.49; καθ᾽ ὅμιλον [prev. work] 467)]; ἑλίσσετο ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα turned himself hither and thither, doubting what to do, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.24.)]
II.3 metaphorically, to be constantly in or about a thing, περὶ φύσας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.372)]; ἔν τινι, εἴς τι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 194b, 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus cited in 4th c.AD: Eusebius Caesariensis Scriptor Ecclesiasticus “Praeparatio Evangelica” 3.4: with _genitive_, μέλιτός τε καὶ ἔργων εἱλίσσονται (i.e. μέλισσαι) 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 1030.)]
II.4 whirl in the dance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 569 (Lyric poetry), “IA” 1055 (Lyric poetry).)]
II.5 middle in active sense, ἧκε δέ μιν σφαιρηδὸν ἑλιξάμενος he threw it with a whirl like a ball, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.204.)]
II.6 τὰς κεφαλὰς εἱλίχατο μίτρῃσι have their heads rolled round with turbans, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.90.)]
or ἐλίσσω (the latter more frequently in codices of [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus))], Attic dialect ἑλίττω, Epic dialect infinitive -έμεν[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.309)]; Ionic dialect εἰλίσσω or εἱλίσσω (εἱ. is found in codices of [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (see. below), but κατ-ελίσσειν 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.(Sp.”) 37, κατειλίξαι [prev. author] “Morb.” 2.18, +others))]: future ἑλίξω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 711)]: aorist εἴλιξα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 73a (εἵλ-)] codices, but κατ-ειλίξας [Refs (“IG” 22.204.32))]; participle ἑλίξας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.466)], Ionic dialect εἰλίξας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.34)]:—middle, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.320)]: future ἑλίξομαι [Refs (17.728)]: aorist ἑλιξάμην [Refs (12.467, 17.283)]:—passive,future ἑλιγήσομαι [LXX (LXX.Isa.34.4)]: aorist 1 εἱλίχθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 358)]; participle ἑλιχθείς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.74)]: perfect εἵλιγμαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 791, ἐλήλιγμαι 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 10.17.12)]: pluperfect εἵλικτο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 927)]; Ionic dialect 3rd.pers. plural εἱλίχατο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.90.)] —The _Ionic dialect_ form is found in Trag. (see. below, codices usually εἱλ-; but τ᾽ εἰ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 138 (Lyric poetry, codex _middle_),compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1314, 1348 (codex Rav.)), in “IG” [same place], and codices of 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus (as “Ti.” [same place], ἀν-ειλίττων “Phlb.” 15e))]; ἐπειλίξας is falsa lectio in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.161. (ϝελ-, ἐϝελ-, compare εἴλω, ἐλελίζω ad near the end))]:—turn round or about: active in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] always of turning a chariot round the doublingpost, οἶσθα γὰρ εὖ περὶ τέρματ᾽ ἐλισσέμεν [ἵππους] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.309,compare 466.)]
2 generally, roll, ἑ. βίου πόρον roll life's stream along, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).15)]; of the chariot of Day, αἰθὴρ κοινὸν φάος εἱλίσσων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1092 (_anapaest meter_); ἥλιος.. εἱλίσσων φλόγα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 3)]; εἰ. κόνιν roll the eddying dust, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1085 (_anapaest meter_))]; ἑ. δίνας, of the Euripus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 7, compare 1103 (Lyric poetry))]; ἑ. κόρας, βλέφαρα, [Refs ([prev. author] “HF” 868 (troch.), “Or.” 1266 (Lyric poetry).)]
3 of any rapid motion, ἅλιον.. ἑ. πλάταν ply it swiflly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 358 (Lyric poetry))]; of the dance, ἑ. πόδα move the swift foot, conjecture in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 171 (Lyric poetry), compare “IA” 215 (Lyric poetry))]; εἱ. θιάσους lead the dancing bands, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “IT” 1145 (Lyric poetry); ἑ. χορούς 5th c.BC: Strattis Comicus 66.5)]: absolutely, dance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 234 (Lyric poetry), compare “Or.” 1292 (whence ἑ. τινά)] dance in honour of.., [Refs ([prev. author] “HF” 690 (Lyric poetry), “IA” 1480 (Lyric poetry)))]; ἑ. βωμόν dance round it, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 321.)]
4 roll or wind round, πλόκαμον περὶ ἄτρακτον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.34, compare 2.38)]; λίνον ἠλακάτᾳ δακτύλοις ἑ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1432 (Lyric poetry))]; χεῖρας ἀμφὶ γόνυ ἑ. clasp them round.., [Refs ([prev. author] “Ph.” 1622.)]
5 metaphorically, turn in one's mind, revolve, τοιαῦθ᾽ ἑ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 231, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epinomis” 978d; μῆτιν 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.463)]; ἑ. κακοὺς λόγους speak wily words, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 892.)]
6 κόλπους ἑ. form winding reaches, of rivers, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Dionysius Periegeta 630; ἀγκῶνας [prev. author] 979.)]
II middle and passive, turn oneself round or about (but in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.49 εἱλίσσεθ᾽ ἑταίρους (as read by Nicanor))] rallied his comrades), ἑλιχθέντων ὑπ᾽ Ἀχαιῶν when they turned to face the foe, [Refs ([prev. work] 74, compare 408)]; so of a wild boar, ἑλιξάμενος having turned to bay, [Refs (17.283)]; of a serpent, coil himself, ἑλισσόμενος περὶ χειῇ [Refs (22.95)]; ἡ δέ τ᾽ ἐλισσομένη πέτεται (i.e. καλαῦροψ) the shepherd's staff flies spinning through the air, [Refs (23.846)]; κνίση.. ἑλισσομένη περὶ καπνῷ rolling with the smoke, [Refs (1.317)]; ἑλισσόμενοι περὶ δίνας whirled round in the eddies, [Refs (21.11)]; of a river, δίνῃς ἀργυρέῃς εἱλιγμένος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 791, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.32)]; of the waves, τὸ ἑλισσόμενον αἰεὶ κυμάτων [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.55)]; of ocean, ἑλίσσεσθαι περὶ πᾶσαν χθόνα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 138)]; ὧραι ἑλισσόμεναι the circling hours, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 4.3.)]
II.2 turn hither and thither, go about, ἀν᾽ ὅμιλον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.49; καθ᾽ ὅμιλον [prev. work] 467)]; ἑλίσσετο ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα turned himself hither and thither, doubting what to do, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.24.)]
II.3 metaphorically, to be constantly in or about a thing, περὶ φύσας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.372)]; ἔν τινι, εἴς τι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 194b, 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus cited in 4th c.AD: Eusebius Caesariensis Scriptor Ecclesiasticus “Praeparatio Evangelica” 3.4: with _genitive_, μέλιτός τε καὶ ἔργων εἱλίσσονται (i.e. μέλισσαι) 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 1030.)]
II.4 whirl in the dance, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 569 (Lyric poetry), “IA” 1055 (Lyric poetry).)]
II.5 middle in active sense, ἧκε δέ μιν σφαιρηδὸν ἑλιξάμενος he threw it with a whirl like a ball, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.204.)]
II.6 τὰς κεφαλὰς εἱλίχατο μίτρῃσι have their heads rolled round with turbans, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.90.)]