noun · feminine
tropas
Strong’sG5157
a turning
stem trop-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.
τροπή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< τρέπω), [in LXX: De 33:14, Jb 38:33, Wi 7:18, al.;]
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(τρέπω) turn, turning:
I τροπαὶ ἠελίοιο:
I.a ὅθι τροπαὶ ἠελίοιο apparently denotes a point on the horizon, probably the West or place where the sum sets (so Refs 8th c.BC+
I.b each of two fixed points in the solar year, the solstices, first in Refs 8th c.BC+at the time of the (winter) solstice, Refs 7th c.BC+; τ. χειμερινήRefs 4th c.BC+; τ. βόρειοι, νότιοι, Refs 1st c.AD+ —when τροπαί is used alone, it mostly refers to the winter solstice, but the sense is always determined by the context, see Refs 8th c.BC+ [same places]; περὶ ἡλίου τροπάς (i.e. χειμερινάς) Refs 5th c.BC+:—sometimes also of other heavenly bodies, Refs 5th c.BC+
I.2 turn, change, Refs 4th c.BC+; τ. πρὸς τὸ βέλτιον turn for the better, Refs 5th c.BC+; αἱ περὶ τὸν ἀέρα τ. changes in the air or weather, Refs 1st c.AD+; of wine, a turning sour, Refs; going bad, of food, τ. καὶ διαφθορὰ τῶν παρακειμένων Refs 2nd c.AD+; of phonetic change in language, Refs 2nd c.AD+
I.3 τροπαὶ λέξεως a change of speech by figures or tropes (τρόποι), Refs 2nd c.AD+
I.4 αἱ τροπαί, ={αἱ τροπαῖαι}, alternating winds, Refs 4th c.BC+
II the turning about of the enemy, putting to flight or routing him, τροπήν (or τροπάς) τινος ποιεῖν or ποιεῖσθαι put one to flight, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἵαν ἂν τροπὴν Εὐρυσθέως θείμην (θείην codices) Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν τροπῇ δορός in the rout caused by the spear, Refs 5th c.BC+
III used by Refs 3rd c.AD+ position, Refs 4th c.BC+
IV a coin, Refs 5th c.AD+; compare τροπαϊκόν.
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 | 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
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
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
tropau“change”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
James 1:17… para ho ouk eniatō parallagas ē tropau aposkiasmem.… lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.