Word Summary
tropē: a turning
Original Word: τροπήTransliteration: tropē
Phonetic Spelling: (trop-ay')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a turning
Meaning: a turning
Strong's Concordance
turning.
From an apparently primary trepo to turn; a turn ("trope"), i.e. Revolution (figuratively, variation) -- turning.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5157: τροπήτροπή,
τροπῆς,
ἡ (from
τρέπω to turn),
a turning: of the heavenly bodies,
James 1:17 (on this see
ἀποσκίασμα); often so in the Greek writings from
Homer and
Hesiod down (see Liddell and Scott, under the word, 1); cf.
Job 38:33; Wis. 7:18;
Deuteronomy 33:14; (
Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word).