Appendix:Gikun Usage in Meiji Version of Japanese Bible/旋転る

Japanese

Kanji in this term
旋	転
Grade: S	Grade: 3
irregular

Alternative spelling
旋轉る (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Gikun word derived by applying Chinese-derived spelling 旋轉, (“turning”), a term which decomposes into 旋 (“revolve, turn”) + 轉 (“shift, turn”), to native Japanese verb まわる (mawaru, “to turn”).

Verb

旋転 (まわ)る／旋轉 (まは)る ^[1](mawaru) → 回(まわ)る (mawaru), 旋転(せんてん) (senten)

to turn

Quotations

^ OT, page 4:
斯(かく)神(かみ)其(その)人(ひと)を逐出(おひいだ)しエデンの園(その)の東(ひがし)にケルビムと自(おのづ)から旋轉(まは)る焔(ほ)の劍(ほのつるぎ)を置(おき)て生命(い)の樹(ち)の途(きのみち)を保守(まも)りたまふ
Kaku Kami sono hito wo oi-idashi Eden no sono no higashi ni Kerubimu to onozukara maharu honoho tsurugi wo okite inochi no ki no michi wo mamori tamau
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

[Gen_3:24-1] OT, page 4:
斯(かく)神(かみ)其(その)人(ひと)を逐出(おひいだ)しエデンの園(その)の東(ひがし)にケルビムと自(おのづ)から旋轉(まは)る焔(ほ)の劍(ほのつるぎ)を置(おき)て生命(い)の樹(ち)の途(きのみち)を保守(まも)りたまふ
Kaku Kami sono hito wo oi-idashi Eden no sono no higashi ni Kerubimu to onozukara maharu honoho tsurugi wo okite inochi no ki no michi wo mamori tamau
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

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