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Strong's G5164 τροχός (trochos)

Trochos means “course” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5164 — nocham (“repentance”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5164
Language Greek
Linked Usages 49
Books 14

Strong's G5164 Quick Answer

Strong's G5164 τροχός (trochos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. trochos (trokh-os') n. 1. a wheel (as a runner) 2. (figuratively) a circuit of physical effects It has 49 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include course. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
trochos (trokh-os') n. 1. a wheel (as a runner) 2. (figuratively) a circuit of physical effects
Usage
49 linked usages
Books
14 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
course

Meaning and Definition

trochos (trokh-os') n. 1. a wheel (as a runner) 2. (figuratively) a circuit of physical effects [from G5143] KJV: course Root(s): G5143

Original Word
τροχός
Transliteration
trochos
Derivation
Root: τρέχω R1: 5143
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5164. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

course/wheel

Usage: τροχός, -οῦ, τό (τρέχω), [in LXX chiefly for אוֹפָן ;] a wheel: Jas.3:6 (see Mayor, Hort, in l).† (AS)

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How Strong's G5164 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render trochos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

course James 3:6

How Strong's G5164 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, 1 Enoch, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 34 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G5164 (τροχός) appears 60 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5164 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G5164 in the New Testament

1 indexed usage in New Testament.

James 3:6 KJV

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

Strong's G5164 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

34 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

2 Kingdoms 24:22 Septuagint / Brenton

And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer to the Lord that which is good in his eyes: behold, here are oxen for a whole burnt offering, and the wheels and furniture of the oxen for wood.

3 Kingdoms 7:17 Septuagint / Brenton

And there were four brazen wheels to one base; and there were brazen bases, and their four sides answering to them, side pieces under the bases.

3 Kingdoms 7:18 Septuagint / Brenton

And there were axles in the wheels under the base. And the height of one wheel was a cubit and a half.

Strong's G5164 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

12 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

4 Maccabees 5:32 Septuagint / Brenton

Now then; prepare your wheels, and kindle a fiercer flame.

4 Maccabees 8:13 Septuagint / Brenton

Fear, young men, and the Righteousness which ye worship will be merciful to you if you err from compulsion.

4 Maccabees 9:12 Septuagint / Brenton

And when they had labored hard without effect in scourging him, they hurled him upon the wheel.

Strong's G5164 in 1 Enoch

2 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 14:18 Septuagint / Brenton

of the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire. And I looked and saw therein a lofty throne: its appearance was as crystal, and the wheels thereof as the shining sun, and there was the vision of

1 Enoch 18:4 Septuagint / Brenton

of the heaven. I saw the winds of heaven which turn and bring the circumference of the sun and

Usage Excerpts

First 49 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5164.

2 Kingdoms 24:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer to the Lord that which is good in his eyes: behold, here are oxen for a whole burnt offering, and the wheels and furniture of the oxen for wood.
3 Kingdoms 7:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there were four brazen wheels to one base; and there were brazen bases, and their four sides answering to them, side pieces under the bases.
3 Kingdoms 7:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there were axles in the wheels under the base. And the height of one wheel was a cubit and a half.
3 Kingdoms 7:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the work of the wheels was as the work of chariot wheels: their axles, and their felloes, and the rest of their work, were all molten.
Psalms 76:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The voice of thy thunder was abroad, And around thy lightnings appeared to the world; The earth trembled and quaked.
Psalms 82:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O my God, make them as a wheel; As stubble before the face of the wind.
Proverbs 20:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And will bring a wheel upon them.
Ecclesiastes 12:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Before the silver cord be let go, Or the choice gold be broken, Or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, Or the wheel run down to the cistern;
Isaiah 5:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whose arrows are sharp, and their bows bent; their horses’ hoofs are counted as solid rock: their chariot wheels are as a storm.
Isaiah 17:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
many nations like much water, as when much water rushes violently: and they shall drive him away, and pursue him afar, as the dust of chaff when men winnow before the wind, and as a storm whirling the dust of the wheel.
Isaiah 28:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the black poppy is not cleansed with harsh treatment, nor will a wagon wheel pass over the cumin; but the black poppy is threshed with a rod, and the cumin shall be eaten with bread;
Isaiah 29:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the wealth of the ungodly shall be as dust from a wheel, and the multitude of them that oppress thee as flying chaff, and it shall be suddenly as a moment,
Isaiah 41:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, I have made thee as new saw-shaped threshing wheels of a wagon; and thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat the hills to powder, and make them as chaff:
Jeremiah 29:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
at the sound of his rushing, at the sound of his hoofs, and at the rattling of his chariots, at the noise of his wheels: the fathers turned not to their children because of the weakness of their hands,
Ezekiel 1:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I looked, and, behold, the four had each one wheel on the ground near the living creatures.
Ezekiel 1:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of beryl: and the four had one likeness: and their work was as it were a wheel in a wheel.
Ezekiel 1:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures lifted themselves off the earth, the wheels were lifted off.
Ezekiel 1:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherever the cloud happened to be, there was the spirit ready to go: the wheels went and were lifted up with them; because the spirit of life was in the wheels.
Ezekiel 1:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When those went, the wheels went; and when those stood, the wheels stood; and when those lifted themselves off the earth, they were lifted off with them: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.
Ezekiel 3:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I perceived the sound of the wings of the living creatures clapping one to the other, and the sound of the wheels was near them, and the sound of the earthquake.
Ezekiel 10:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said to the man clothed with the long robe, Go in between the wheels that are under the cherubs, and fill thy hands with coals of fire from between the cherubs, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
Ezekiel 10:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass, when he gave a charge to the man clothed with the sacred robe, saying, Take fire from between the wheels from between the cherubs, that he went in, and stood near the wheels.
Ezekiel 10:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I saw, and behold, four wheels stood by the cherubs, one wheel by each cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of a carbuncle stone.
Ezekiel 10:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And as for their appearance, there was one likeness to the four, as if there should be a wheel in the midst of a wheel.
Ezekiel 10:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about the four wheels.
Ezekiel 10:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And these wheels were called Gelgel in my hearing.
Ezekiel 10:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when the cherubs went, the wheels went, and they were close to them: and when the cherubs lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, their wheels turned not.
Ezekiel 10:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the cherubs lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went forth, the wheels were also beside them, and they stood at the entrance of the front gate of the house of the Lord; and the glory of the God of Israel was upon them above.
Ezekiel 11:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then the cherubs lifted up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
Ezekiel 23:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they all shall come upon thee from the north, chariots and wheels, with a multitude of nations, shields and targets; and the enemy shall set a watch against thee round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall take vengeance on thee with their judgments.
Ezekiel 26:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
By reason of the multitude of his horses their dust shall cover thee, and by reason of the sound of his horsemen and the wheels of his chariots thy walls shall be shaken, when he enters into thy gates, as one entering into a city from the plain.
Ezekiel 27:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Out of Uzqal came wrought iron, and there is the sound of wheels among thy trading population.
Daniel 7:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I beheld until the thrones were set, and the Ancient of days sat; and his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head as pure wool: his throne was a flame of fire, and his wheels burning fire.
Nahum 3:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The noise of whips, and the noise of the rumbling of wheels, and of the pursuing horse, and of the bounding chariot,
James 3:6 New Testament, KJV
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
4 Maccabees 5:32 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now then; prepare your wheels, and kindle a fiercer flame.
4 Maccabees 8:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Fear, young men, and the Righteousness which ye worship will be merciful to you if you err from compulsion.
4 Maccabees 9:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when they had labored hard without effect in scourging him, they hurled him upon the wheel.
4 Maccabees 9:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
he answered, Not so powerful, O accursed ministers, is your wheel, as to stifle my reasoning; cut my limbs, and burn my flesh, and twist my joints.
4 Maccabees 9:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
While he was saying this, they heaped up fuel, and setting fire to it, strained him upon the wheel still more.
4 Maccabees 9:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the wheel was defiled all over with blood, and the hot ashes were quenched by the droppings of gore, and pieces of flesh were scattered about the axles of the machine.
4 Maccabees 10:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
around which his vertebral joints were loosened, and he saw his own flesh torn to shreds, and streams of blood flowing from his entrails.
4 Maccabees 11:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
to which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins upon the wedge of the wheel; and his body was then dismembered, scorpion fashion.
4 Maccabees 11:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
As he said this, they brought him to the wheel.
4 Maccabees 15:22 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
With what and what manner of torments was the mother herself tortured, as her sons were undergoing the wheel and the fires!
Wisdom of Sirach 33:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And let them know thee, as we have known thee, That there is no God but only thou, O God.
Wisdom of Sirach 38:29 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So doth the potter sitting at his work, And turning the wheel about with his feet, Who is always carefully set at his work, And maketh all his work by number;
1 Enoch 14:18 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
of the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire. And I looked and saw therein a lofty throne: its appearance was as crystal, and the wheels thereof as the shining sun, and there was the vision of
1 Enoch 18:4 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
of the heaven. I saw the winds of heaven which turn and bring the circumference of the sun and

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5164, grouped by book.

2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 18 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
James 1 usage, New Testament
4 Maccabees 10 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 2 usages, 1 Enoch

Strong's G5164 FAQ

What does trochos (τροχός) mean?

Trochos (Strong's G5164) is a Greek word most simply glossed "course". trochos (trokh-os') n. 1. a wheel (as a runner) 2. (figuratively) a circuit of physical effects

How many times is trochos (τροχός) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 49 linked usages for Strong's G5164 across 14 books.

Where can I study trochos (τροχός) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5164 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate trochos (τροχός)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as course. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G5164 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 34 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 12 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 2 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G5164, with linked reader references where each row is available.