verb

Greekῥιπίζομαι (ripizomai)

Biblang

ripizomō

Strong’sG4494

I toss to and fro

stem ripiz-once in the New Testament1 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.

ῥιπίζω

(< ῥιπίς, a fan) [in LXX: Da LXX 2:35 (נְשָׂא) *;]

primarily, to fan a fire, hence generally, to make a breeze (Plut., al.). In pass. (cf. Philo, de incer. mund., 24), to be tossed or blown by the wind: of waves, ἀνεμιζομένῳ καὶ ῥιπιζομένῳ, blown and raised with the wind (Hort, in l.), Ja 1:6.†

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

Strong’s G4494 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhrip-id'-zo

to breeze up, i.e. (by analogy) to agitate (into waves)

Fromfrom a derivative of G4496 (meaning a fan or bellows);

King Jamestoss.

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-ίζω,
(ῥιπίς) blow up or fan the flame, πολέμου ἔριν Refs 5th c.BC+ —passive, τεμάχη ῥιπίζεται the fish is fanned to boiling-point, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 fan a person, in middle, fan oneself, Refs 5th c.BC+:—passive, ῥιπίζεσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν περιστερῶν Refs 4th c.BC+; to be fanned or blown about, ὑπ᾽ ἀνέμου NT+4th c.BC+
3 hurl, Refs 3rd 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.

tossed1×

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

Biblang forms

What the New Testament actually uses, first — the whole system this verb is built from is one click further down.

Form and the Greek behind it	What it is	Usually	Times
ripizorōntoῥιπιζομένῳ	happening now · to, forpresent middle or passive participle dative singular masculine	tossed	1×

Every form the New Testament uses, in paradigm order. What the system can build beyond them — the whole of this verb, whether the text happens to use it or not — is in the tables below.

Every form the system can build — all 54, by mood, including the ones the New Testament never uses

Statements — indicative mood, no occurrences

Who person	happening now present	was happening imperfect	has happened perfect	had happened pluperfect
I 1st person singular	ripizomō	ripizome	ripizomē	ripizomelē
you 2nd person singular	ripizosō	ripizose	ripizosē	ripizoselē
he/she/it 3rd person singular	ripizotō	ripizote	ripizotē	ripizotelē
we 1st person plural	ripizonō	ripizone	ripizonē	ripizonelē
ye 2nd person plural	ripizovō	ripizove	ripizovē	ripizovelē
they 3rd person plural	ripizolō	ripizole	ripizolē	ripizolelē

May, might — subjunctive mood, no occurrences

Who person	happening now present	has happened perfect
I 1st person singular	ripizomeiō	ripizomeiē
you 2nd person singular	ripizoseiō	ripizoseiē
he/she/it 3rd person singular	ripizoteiō	ripizoteiē
we 1st person plural	ripizoneiō	ripizoneiē
ye 2nd person plural	ripizoveiō	ripizoveiē
they 3rd person plural	ripizoleiō	ripizoleiē

Commands — imperative mood, no occurrences

Who person	happening now present	has happened perfect
you 2nd person singular	ripizosōr	ripizosēr
he/she/it 3rd person singular	ripizotōr	ripizotēr
ye 2nd person plural	ripizovōr	ripizovēr
they 3rd person plural	ripizolōr	ripizolēr

Wishes — optative mood, no occurrences

Who person	happening now present
I 1st person singular	ripizomoiō
you 2nd person singular	ripizosoiō
he/she/it 3rd person singular	ripizotoiō
we 1st person plural	ripizonoiō
ye 2nd person plural	ripizovoiō
they 3rd person plural	ripizoloiō

The “to …” form — infinitive, no occurrences

Who is acting voice	happening now present	will happen future	happened aorist	has happened perfect
acts on itself, or is acted on middle or passive voice	ripizorō			ripizorē

Used as an adjective — participle, 1 occurrence

Who is acting voice	happening now present	will happen future	happened aorist	has happened perfect
acts on itself, or is acted on middle or passive voice	ripizorōntos1×			ripizorēntos

Each is given in the form it takes as a subject. From there a participle carries the ordinary noun endings, in every case, number and gender — so these four columns are the whole of what the verb contributes.

How every form is built — the slots that make them

ripizstem+aoeiwho is acting voice+mstnvl—who person+—eiroistatement, command, wish mood+ōeiaēelēwhen tense+—ntthen it declines+—ogender+—sits job in the sentence case

ripiz 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

ripizorōnto“tossed”happening now · to, forpresent middle or passive participle dative singular masculine1×

James 1:6… diakrinorōntos eoikatē kludōno thalassau anemizorōnto kai ripizorōnto;… wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.