parallagas

Strong’sG3883

a change, variation

stem parallag-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

παρ-αλλαγή, -ῆς, ἡ

(< παραλλάσσω), [in LXX: IV Ki 9:20 (שִׁגָּעוֹן)*;]

in various senses (LS, s.v.), change: Ja 1:17.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3883 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpar-al-lag-ay'

transmutation (of phase or orbit), i.e. (figuratively) fickleness

Fromfrom a compound of G3844 and G236;

King Jamesvariableness.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

παραλλ-ᾰγή, ἡ,
passing from hand to hand, transmission, πυρὸς παραλλαγαί Refs 4th c.BC+; change of position, movement, τὸ τάχος τῆς π., of the sun's apparent motion, Refs 1st c.BC+
b Astrology texts, of a heavenly body, passing beyond the degree occupied by another, Antioch.Astr.in Refs
2 alternation, μυῶν παραλλαγαὶ καὶ νεύρων their alternate movements, Refs 5th c.BC+; παραλλαγὰς τοῖς ποσὶν ἐποίουν, of dancers, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 distortion of the vertebrae, Refs 5th c.BC+; contortion, twisting, of wood, Refs 4th c.BC+
4 interchange, διανοίας πρὸς αἴσθησιν π. interchange of intellect and sense, putting one for the other, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. προσώπων, πτώσεως, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II difference between things, ποιεῖν τινα π. εὐοσμίας καὶ ἀοσμίας Refs 4th c.BC+; μεγάλην ἔχειν π. Refs 1st c.BC+
III variety, variation, NT+4th c.BC+; change of meaning, παραλλαγῶν κατὰ σύμβολον γινομένων Refs 3rd c.BC+
IV frenzy, madness, ἐν π. γενέσθαι LXX; π. ψυχῆς perturbation of soul, Refs 4th c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

variation1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	parallagas1×παραλλαγὴ	parallagais
object accusative	parallagan	parallagain
direct address vocative	parallagar	parallagair
of, belonging to genitive	parallagau	parallagaiu
to, for dative	parallaga	parallagai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

parallagstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

parallaga is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

parallagas“variation”subjectnominative singular1×

James 1:17“variation”… teiu fōteiu, para ho ouk eniatō parallagas ē tropau aposkiasmem.… Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.