μετα-σχηματίζω [in LXX: 4Ma.9:22 *;]
to change in fashion or appearance: with accusative of thing(s), τ. σῶμα, Php.3:21; mid, before εἰς, 2Co.11:13-14; before ὡς, 2Co.11:15; of a rhetorical device, to transfer by a fiction (Field,
Notes, in l), before εἰς, 1Co.4:6.
SYN.: μεταμορφόω, q.v (
AS)