denotes, in general, "a change" (Eng., "parallax," the difference between the directions of a body as seen from two different points), "a transmission" from one condition to another; it occurs in James 1:17 , RV, "variation" (AV, "variableness"); the reference may be to the sun, which "varies" its position in the sky. In the Sept. 2 Kings 9:20 .