noun · feminine

tropas

Greekτροπή (tropē)

Strong’sG5157

a turning

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

Translated as

change1×

What it means

τροπή, -ῆς, ἡ

(< τρέπω), [in LXX: De 33:14, Jb 38:33, Wi 7:18, al.;]

a turning: esp. of the revolution of heavenly bodies, fig., Ja 1:17 (v.s. ἀποσκίασμα).†

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

Strong’s G5157 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidtrop-ay'

a turn ("trope"), i.e. revolution (figuratively, variation)

Fromfrom an apparently primary τρέπω to turn;

King Jamesturning.

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

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	tropas	tropais
object accusative	tropan	tropain
direct address vocative	tropar	tropair
of, belonging to genitive	tropau1×τροπῆς	tropaiu
to, for dative	tropa	tropai

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

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

tropa 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

Words built on the same stem

tropos — τρόπος, way, manner, character

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

tropau“change”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

James 1:17“change”Pantas dosias agathas kai pantem dōrēmem teleiem anōthen atō, katabainarōtem apo tou patērou teiu fōteiu, para ho ouk eniatō parallagas ē tropau aposkiasmem.Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.