Lexical Summary metaschēmatizō: to change in fashion or appearance Original Word: μετασχηματίζωTransliteration: metaschēmatizō Phonetic Spelling: (met-askh-ay-mat-id'-zo) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to change in fashion or appearance Meaning: to change in fashion or appearance Strong's Concordance to transform, disguiseFrom meta and a derivative of schema; to transfigure or disguise; figuratively, to apply (by accommodation) -- transfer, transform (self). see GREEK meta see GREEK schema Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3345: μετασχηματίζωμετασχηματίζω: future μετασχηματίσω (cf. Buttmann, 37 (32)); 1 aorist μετεσχημάτισα; middle present μετασχηματίζομαι; to change the figure of, to transform (see μετά, III. 2): τί, Philippians 3:21 (see below); middle followed by εἰς τινα, to transform oneself into someone, to assume one's appearance, 2 Corinthians 11:13f; followed by ὡς τίς, so as to have the appearance of someone, 2 Corinthians 11:15; μετασχηματίζω τί εἰς τινα, to shape one's discourse so as to transfer to oneself what holds true of the whole class to which one belongs, i. e. so as to illustrate by what one says of himself what holds true of all: 1 Corinthians 4:6, where the meaning is, 'by what I have said of myself and Apollos, I have shown what holds true of all Christian teachers.' (4 Macc. 9:22; Plato, legg. 10, p. 903 e.; (Aristotle, de caele 3, 1, p. 298{b}, 31, etc.); Josephus, Antiquities 7, 10, 5; 8, 11, 1; Plutarch, Ages. 14; def. orac. c. 30; (Philo, leg. ad Gaium § 11); Sextus Empiricus, 10, p. 688, Fabric. edition (p. 542, 23 edition, Bekker).) |
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