Lexical Summary rhipē: any rapid movement, a twinkling (of lights or the eye) Original Word: ῥιπήTransliteration: rhipē Phonetic Spelling: (hree-pay') Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: any rapid movement, a twinkling (of lights or the eye) Meaning: any rapid movement, a twinkling (of lights or the eye) Strong's Concordance twinkling. From rhipto; a jerk (of the eye, i.e. (by analogy) an instant) -- twinkling. see GREEK rhipto Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4493: ῤιπῇῤιπῇ, ῥιπης, ἡ (ῤίπτω), used by the Greek poets from Homer down; a throw, stroke, beat: ὀφθαλμοῦ (Vulg.ictus oculi (A. V. the twinkling of an eye)), a moment of time, 1 Corinthians 15:52 (L marginal reading ῤοπή, which see). STRONGS NT 4493: ῤοπή [ῤοπή, ῥοπης, ἡ (ῤέπω), from Aeschylus, Plato, down, inclination downward, as of the turning of the scale: ἐν ῤοπή ὀφθαλμοῦ, 1 Corinthians 15:52, L marginal reading (cf. Tdf.s note at the passage); see ῤιπῇ.] |
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