noun · feminine
trufas
Strong’sG5172
effeminate luxury
stem truf-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
τρυφή, -ῆς, ἡ
[in LXX chiefly for עָדַן;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5172 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtroo-fay'
effeminacy, i.e. luxury or debauchery
Fromfrom θρύπτω (to break up or (figuratively) enfeeble, especially the mind and body by indulgence);
King Jamesdelicately, riot.
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
(θρύπτω) softness, delicacy, daintiness, Refs 5th c.BC+; στολίδος κροκόεσσαν.. τρυφάν (sic to be read pro στολίδα.. τρυφᾶς) Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, luxuries, daintinesses, τ. Τρωϊκαί Refs; τρυφὰς τοιάσδε [τρυφᾶν] Refs 5th c.BC+
II luxuriousness, wantonness, τῶν γυναικῶν ἡ τ. Refs 5th c.BC+; τ. καὶ ἀκολασία, τ. καὶ μαλθακία, NT+5th c.BC+
III daintiness, fastidiousness, ὑπὸ τρυφῆς 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 | trufas | trufais |
| object accusative | trufan1×τρυφήν | trufain |
| direct address vocative | trufar | trufair |
| of, belonging to genitive | trufau | trufaiu |
| to, for dative | trufa1×τρυφῇ | trufai |
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
trufa 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
trufan“revel”objectaccusative singular1×
2 Peter 2:13“revel”… adikiau; hēdonan hēgorōntois tan en hēmera trufan, spilois kai mōmois entrufarōntois en tai …The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception …
trufa“luxury”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 7:25… idou tois en himatismo endoxo kai trufa huparcharōntois en tei basileiei alō.… wear elegant clothing and live in luxury are found in palaces.