noun · masculine
trochos
Strong’sG5164
a wheel, course
stem troch-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.
τροχός, -οῦ, τό
(< τρέχω), [in LXX chiefly for אוֹפָן;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5164 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtrokh-os'
a wheel (as a runner), i.e. (figuratively) a circuit of physical effects
Fromfrom G5143;
King Jamescourse.
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
(τρέχω) wheel, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐν πτερόεντι τ... κυλινδόμενον, of Ixion, Refs 5th c.BC+; τροχοὺς μιμεῖσθαι to imitate wheels, of one who bends back so as to form a wheel, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 potter's wheel, Refs 8th c.BC+; τροχῷ ἐλαθεὶς [λύχνος] (compare τροχήλατος) Refs 5th c.BC+
3 wheel of a stage-machine, Refs 5th c.BC+; also of a water-wheel, ὁ τ. τῆς μηχανῆς Refs 1st c.AD+; τ. καὶ μηχανή Refs 3rd c.AD+
4 wheel of torture, Refs 6th c.BC+; τῷ τ. προσηλοῦν ['Ιξίονα] Refs 2nd c.AD+
5 rotating wheels used in sieges as a defence against projectiles, Refs 1st c.BC+
II child's hoop, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III round cake, κηροῖο, στέατος τ., Refs 8th c.BC+; τ. ἡλίου the sun's disk, Refs 5th c.BC+; coil of a serpent, Refs 5th c.AD+
III.2 large pill Refs 2nd c.AD+
IV θαλάττης γῆς τε τ. circles or zones of land and sea, Refs 5th c.BC+
V circuit of a wall or fortification, Κυκλώπιος τ. Refs 5th c.BC+
VI ring playing on the bit of a bridle, Refs 5th c.BC+
VI.2 ring for passing a rope through, on board ship, Refs
VII whirlwind, LXX
VIII washpot (?), Refs 2nd c.AD+
IX a fish or sea-monster (Latin rota, Refs 1st c.AD+
X metaphorically, ὁ τ. τῆς γενέσεως NT+6th c.AD+
B τρόχος, ὁ, circular race, Refs 5th c.BC+; μὴ πολλοὺς τ. ἁμιλλητῆρας ἡλίου not many racing courses of the sun, i.e. not many days (codices τροχούς wheels), Refs 5th c.BC+
B.2 place for running, race-course, Refs
B.II an animal, 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.
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 | trochos | trochois |
| object accusative | trochon1×τροχὸν | trochoin |
| direct address vocative | trochor | trochoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | trochou | trochoiu |
| to, for dative | trocho | trochoi |
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
trocho 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
trochon“course”objectaccusative singular1×
James 3:6… holem tem sōmem kai flogizarōntas ton trochon tau genesiau kai flogizorōntas hupo tau …… pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and …