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ῥιπή

rhipḗ · G4493 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. blinking

    A rapid motion, especially of the eye

    Examples

    1 Corinthians 15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 2 words
στιγμή stigmḗ · G4743 · moment, flash, instant
Greek term for a moment or point in time; both ῥιπή and στιγμή denote an extremely brief temporal duration, though ῥιπή derives from the physical motion (twinkling/jerking) while στιγμή is more abstract (a point).
ἄτομος átomos · G823 · moment, flash, instant
Used substantively in 1 Cor 15:52 alongside ῥιπή ('in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye') to denote an indivisible instant of time; both terms emphasize the extreme brevity of the temporal period.
In the other Testament 1 word
רֶגַע regaʻ · H7281 · moment, tranquility, rest
Hebrew term for a brief moment or instant of time, the standard translation equivalent for ῥιπή in 1 Cor 15:52 ('in the twinkling of an eye') where it denotes a momentary duration.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Blinking16.5
The noun names the briefest imaginable span of time, as brief as a single blink. Paul describes the resurrection as happening “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet” (1 Corinthians 15:52).
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ῥίπτω rhíptō · G4496 · to throw, to hurl, to put down · 7×ἐπιῤῥίπτω epirrhíptō · G1977 · to throw on, to hurl on, to put responsibility on · 2×ἀποῤῥίπτω aporrhíptō · G641 · to jump off, to leap overboard · 1×ῥιπήrhipḗ · G4493ῥιπίζω rhipízō · G4494 · to be tossed about · 1×ῥιπτέω rhiptéō · G4495 · to toss up · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ῥιπης, ἡ (ῤίπτω), used by the Greek poets from Homer down; a throw, stroke, beat:…
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 Cor 15:52 (L marginal reading ῤοπή, which see).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Non-Linear Movement1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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