Quick Definition
a change, variation
Strong's Definition
transmutation (of phase or orbit), i.e. (figuratively) fickleness
Derivation: from a compound of G3844 (παρά) and G236 (ἀλλάσσω);
KJV Usage: variableness
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
παραλλαγή, παραλλαγης, ἡ (παραλλάσσω), variation, change: Jas_1:17. (Aeschylus, Plato, Polybius, others.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
παραλλαγή parallagē 1x
a shifting, mutation, change, Jas_1:17
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
παρ -αλλαγή , -ῆς , ἡ
( < παραλλάσσω ),
[in LXX : 2Ki_9:20 ( H7697 ) * ;]
in various senses ( LS , s.v. ), change: Jas_1:17 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
παραλλαγή [page 487]
The special meaning of a periodic change of a heavenly body which this word has in its only NT occurrence ( Jas_1:17 ), is illustrated by Hort ad l. from Dion Cass. lxxvi. 13, where it is said of the Emperor Severus in the North of Scotland τήν τε τοῦ ἡλίου παράλλαξιν καὶ τὸ τῶν ἡμερῶν , τῶν τε νύκτων καὶ τῶν θερινῶν καὶ τῶν χειμερινῶν μέγεθος ἀκριβέστατα κατεφώρασεν . In Aristeas 75 παραλλαγή is used of stones arranged alternately λίθων ἑτέρων παρ᾽ ἑτέρους , τοῖς γένεσι παραλλαγὴν ἐχόντων . For the verb cf. Preisigke 4947 .4 (love-charm iii/A.D.) εἰς τὸ παραλλαγῆναι τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτῆς , Theophr. H.P. v. i. 3 αἱ πέψεις τῶν καρπῶν παραλλάττουσι , times of ripeness vary.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
παραλλαγή παραλλα^γή, ἡ, "a passing from hand to hand, transmission", Aesch. "variation, change", NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
παρ-αλλαγή, -ῆς, ἡ
(παραλλάσσω), [in LXX: 4Ki.9:20 (שִׁגָּעוֹן)* ;]
in various senses (LS, see word), change: Jas.1:17.†
(AS)