Word Summary
tryphē: softness, daintiness, luxuriousness
Original Word: τρυφήTransliteration: tryphē
Phonetic Spelling: (troo-fay')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: softness, daintiness, luxuriousness
Meaning: softness, daintiness, luxuriousness
Strong's Concordance
delicately, riot.
From thrupto (to break up or (figuratively) enfeeble, especially the mind and body by indulgence); effeminacy, i.e. Luxury or debauchery -- delicately, riot.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5172: τρυφήτρυφή,
τρυφῆς,
ἡ (from
φρύπτω to break down, enervate; passive and middle to live softly and delicately),
softness, effeminacy, luxurious living:
Luke 7:25;
2 Peter 2:13. (
Euripides,
Aristophanes,
Xenophon,
Plato, and following; the
Sept..)