ripas

Strong’sG4493

a glance, twinkle (of the eye)

stem rip-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.

* ῥιπή, ῆς, ἡ

(< ῥίπτω),

poët. in cl., any rapid movement such as the throw or flight of a javelin, the rush of wind or flame, the flapping of wings, the twinkling of lights; ῥ. ὀφθαλμοῦ, the twinkling of an eye: I Co 15:52 (L, mg., ῥοπή, q.v.).†

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

Strong’s G4493 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhree-pay'

a jerk (of the eye, i.e. (by analogy) an instant)

Fromfrom G4496;

King Jamestwinkling.

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

ῥῑπ-ή, ἡ,
(ῥίπτω) poet. Noun, swing or force with which anything is thrown, ὅσση δ᾽ αἰγανέης ῥιπὴ.. τέτυκται as far as is the flight of a javelin, Refs 8th c.BC+; πέτριναι ῥ. Refs 5th c.BC+; βελέων ῥ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ὑπὸ ῥιπῆς.. Βορέαο the sweep or rush of the N. wind, Refs 8th c.BC+ (Lyric poetry, here metaphorically of gusts of passion, compare Refs; ῥ. Διόθεν τεύχουσα φόβον storm, Refs 4th c.BC+; ῥ. πυρός rush of fire, Refs 8th c.BC+; κεραυνῶν, χαλάζης, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ὑπὸ ῥιπῇς Ἀφροδίτης, of love, Refs 2nd c.AD+; νυχιᾶν (ἐννυχιᾶν Lachm.) ἀπὸ ῥιπᾶν from the night storms, i.e. from the “North”, the land of darkness and storms, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 πτερύγων ῥιπαί flapping of wings, Refs 5th c.BC+; buzz of a gnat's wing, Refs 4th c.BC+; of the lyre's quivering notes, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 quivering, twinkling light, ῥιπαὶ ἄστρων Refs 5th c.BC+
3.b of any rapid movement, ῥ. ποδῶν Refs 5th c.BC+; ῥ. ὠκυάλῳ, of a dolphin, Refs 2nd c.AD+; of a bird's wing, οὐδὲ τινάσσει ῥιπήν Refs 3rd c.BC+; ἐν ῥ. ὀφθαλμοῦ the twinkling of an eye, NT
4 a strong smell, ῥ. οἴνου Refs 5th c.BC+

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.

twinkling1×

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	ripas	ripais
object accusative	ripan	ripain
direct address vocative	ripar	ripair
of, belonging to genitive	ripau	ripaiu
to, for dative	ripa1×ῥιπῇ	ripai

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

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

ripa 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

ripa“twinkling”to, fordative singular1×

1 Corinthians 15:52en atome, en ripa ofthalmou, en ta eschata salpinga; salpizati …in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last …