Lexical Summary
rhipé: Flash, twinkling, moment
Original Word: ῥιπή
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: rhipé
Pronunciation: hree-PAY
Phonetic Spelling: (hree-pay')
KJV: twinkling
NASB: twinkling
Word Origin: [from G4496 (ῥίπτω - threw)]
1. a jerk (of the eye)
2. (by analogy) an instant
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
twinkling.
From rhipto; a jerk (of the eye, i.e. (by analogy) an instant) -- twinkling.
see GREEK rhipto
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
rhiptóDefinitionany rapid movement, spec. a twinkling (of lights or the eye)
NASB Translationtwinkling (1).
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).