Strong G5157τροπή
turning
- Transliteration
- tropē
- Pronunciation
- trop-ay'
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
From an apparently primary word τρέπω trepō (to turn); a turn (trope) that is revolution (figuratively variation): - turning.
Detailed definition
τροπή, -ῆς, ἡ
(τρέπω), [in LXX: Deu.33:14, Job.38:33, Wis.7:18, al.;]
a turning: esp. of the revolution of heavenly bodies, figuratively, Jas.1:17 (see: ἀποσκίασμα).†
(AS)
(τρέπω), [in LXX: Deu.33:14, Job.38:33, Wis.7:18, al.;]
a turning: esp. of the revolution of heavenly bodies, figuratively, Jas.1:17 (see: ἀποσκίασμα).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5157 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- turn1
First verses
- James 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
τροπ-ή, ἡ,
(τρέπω) turn, turning:
I τροπαὶ ἠελίοιο:
I.a ὅθι τροπαὶ ἠελίοιο apparently denotes a point on the horizon, probably the West or place where the sum sets (so [Refs 8th c.BC+ (12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1787.20), 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.404.)]
I.b each of two fixed points in the solar year, the solstices, first in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus, ἠελίοιο τροπῇς)]at the time of the (winter) solstice, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (“Op.” 479; μετὰ τροπὰς ἠελ. [prev. work]564,663 (with _Doric dialect_ _accusative_ _plural_ in -ᾰς); πεδὰ τὰς τροπάς 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 33.5:—later the two solstices were distinguished as τροπαὶ θεριναί and χειμεριναί, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.19, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.16, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 767c, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 542b4ff, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.405, etc. (rarely in _sing._, τροπὴ θερινή 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 364b2, 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 1.13)]; τ. χειμερινή[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 15); τροπαὶ νότιοι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 542b11)]; τ. βόρειοι, νότιοι, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.601a:)] —when τροπαί is used alone, it mostly refers to the winter solstice, but the sense is always determined by the context, see [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus)] [same places]; περὶ ἡλίου τροπάς (i.e. χειμερινάς) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.39; εὐθὺς ἐκ τροπῶν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 542b20)]:—sometimes also of other heavenly bodies, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 39d; περὶ Πλειάδος δύσιν καὶ τροπάς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 542b23, etc.; ἄστρων ἐπιτολάς, δύσεις, τροπάς 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 30.5; τροπὰς τῶν ἐνδεδεμένων ἄστρων 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Caelo” 296b4; τροπαὶ ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.40U.:—sometimes four in number (the two equinoxes and two solstices), 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 5.11, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 17(1).22; so (on a sun-dial) θερινὴ τ., ἰσημερινὴ τ., χειμερινὴ τ., Ἀρχ.Δελτ. 12.236 (from Samos).)]
I.2 turn, change, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1316a17; πλείους τραπόμενος τροπὰς τοῦ Εὐρίπου 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.90)]; τ. πρὸς τὸ βέλτιον turn for the better, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.25S.; ὀξυτέρας τρεπόμενος τ. τοῦ χαμαιλέοντος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alcibiades” 23; αἱ τοῦ κόλακος ὥσπερ πολύποδος τ. [prev. author] 2.52f; αἱ τῶ αἵματος τ. καὶ ἀλλοιώσιες 5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 102c)]; αἱ περὶ τὸν ἀέρα τ. changes in the air or weather, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.946f)]; of wine, a turning sour, [Refs ([prev. work]939f (compare τροπίας))]; going bad, of food, τ. καὶ διαφθορὰ τῶν παρακειμένων [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.208)]; of phonetic change in language, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Adverbiis;” 210.4, Hdn.Gr. 2.932.)]
I.3 τροπαὶ λέξεως a change of speech by figures or tropes (τρόποι), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Dem.Enc.” 6, compare 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ εὑρέσεως” 4.10, +others)]
I.4 αἱ τροπαί, ={αἱ τροπαῖαι}, alternating winds, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 940b16, 21, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 2.3.1, “Vent.” 26.)]
II the turning about of the enemy, putting to flight or routing him, τροπήν (or τροπάς) τινος ποιεῖν or ποιεῖσθαι put one to flight, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.30, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 246 (troch.), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.19, 6.69, etc.)]; οἵαν ἂν τροπὴν Εὐρυσθέως θείμην (θείην codices) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 743; τροπὴ γινομένη 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.167, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.49, 50, etc.: poetry, ἐν μάχης τροπῇ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1237)]; ἐν τροπῇ δορός in the rout caused by the spear, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1275, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 82.)]
III used by [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus for θέσις,)] position, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 985b17, 1042b14, compare 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.5.2, 4.5.6.)]
IV a coin, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]; compare τροπαϊκόν.
(τρέπω) turn, turning:
I τροπαὶ ἠελίοιο:
I.a ὅθι τροπαὶ ἠελίοιο apparently denotes a point on the horizon, probably the West or place where the sum sets (so [Refs 8th c.BC+ (12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1787.20), 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.404.)]
I.b each of two fixed points in the solar year, the solstices, first in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus, ἠελίοιο τροπῇς)]at the time of the (winter) solstice, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (“Op.” 479; μετὰ τροπὰς ἠελ. [prev. work]564,663 (with _Doric dialect_ _accusative_ _plural_ in -ᾰς); πεδὰ τὰς τροπάς 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 33.5:—later the two solstices were distinguished as τροπαὶ θεριναί and χειμεριναί, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.19, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.16, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 767c, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 542b4ff, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.405, etc. (rarely in _sing._, τροπὴ θερινή 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 364b2, 1st c.BC: Geminus Astronomicus 1.13)]; τ. χειμερινή[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 15); τροπαὶ νότιοι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 542b11)]; τ. βόρειοι, νότιοι, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.601a:)] —when τροπαί is used alone, it mostly refers to the winter solstice, but the sense is always determined by the context, see [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus)] [same places]; περὶ ἡλίου τροπάς (i.e. χειμερινάς) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.39; εὐθὺς ἐκ τροπῶν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 542b20)]:—sometimes also of other heavenly bodies, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 39d; περὶ Πλειάδος δύσιν καὶ τροπάς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 542b23, etc.; ἄστρων ἐπιτολάς, δύσεις, τροπάς 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 30.5; τροπὰς τῶν ἐνδεδεμένων ἄστρων 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Caelo” 296b4; τροπαὶ ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 2p.40U.:—sometimes four in number (the two equinoxes and two solstices), 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 5.11, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 17(1).22; so (on a sun-dial) θερινὴ τ., ἰσημερινὴ τ., χειμερινὴ τ., Ἀρχ.Δελτ. 12.236 (from Samos).)]
I.2 turn, change, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1316a17; πλείους τραπόμενος τροπὰς τοῦ Εὐρίπου 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.90)]; τ. πρὸς τὸ βέλτιον turn for the better, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 2.25S.; ὀξυτέρας τρεπόμενος τ. τοῦ χαμαιλέοντος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alcibiades” 23; αἱ τοῦ κόλακος ὥσπερ πολύποδος τ. [prev. author] 2.52f; αἱ τῶ αἵματος τ. καὶ ἀλλοιώσιες 5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 102c)]; αἱ περὶ τὸν ἀέρα τ. changes in the air or weather, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.946f)]; of wine, a turning sour, [Refs ([prev. work]939f (compare τροπίας))]; going bad, of food, τ. καὶ διαφθορὰ τῶν παρακειμένων [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.208)]; of phonetic change in language, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Adverbiis;” 210.4, Hdn.Gr. 2.932.)]
I.3 τροπαὶ λέξεως a change of speech by figures or tropes (τρόποι), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Dem.Enc.” 6, compare 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ εὑρέσεως” 4.10, +others)]
I.4 αἱ τροπαί, ={αἱ τροπαῖαι}, alternating winds, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 940b16, 21, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 2.3.1, “Vent.” 26.)]
II the turning about of the enemy, putting to flight or routing him, τροπήν (or τροπάς) τινος ποιεῖν or ποιεῖσθαι put one to flight, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.30, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 246 (troch.), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.19, 6.69, etc.)]; οἵαν ἂν τροπὴν Εὐρυσθέως θείμην (θείην codices) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 743; τροπὴ γινομένη 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.167, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.49, 50, etc.: poetry, ἐν μάχης τροπῇ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1237)]; ἐν τροπῇ δορός in the rout caused by the spear, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1275, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 82.)]
III used by [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus for θέσις,)] position, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 985b17, 1042b14, compare 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 4.5.2, 4.5.6.)]
IV a coin, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]; compare τροπαϊκόν.