Strong's Lexicon
G4486 — ῥήγνυμι
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G4486 |
|---|---|
| Word: | ῥήγνυμι |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | prolonged forms of rheko (which appears only in certain forms, and is itself probably a strengthened form of agnumi (see in G2608)) |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 7 |
| Transliteration: | rhegnumi |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | rhayg'-noo-mee (or rhesso rhace'-so) v. |
| Meaning: | 1. to "break," "wreck" or "crack" 2. (especially) to sunder (by separation of the parts) or disrupt, lacerate 3. (by implication) to convulse (with spasms) 4. (figuratively) to give vent to joyful emotions {G2608 being its intensive (with the preposition in composition), and G2352 a shattering to minute fragments, but not a reduction to the constituent particles, like G3089} |
| KJV Renderings: | break (forth), burst, rend, tear |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ῤήγνυμι (Mat 9:17) and ῤήσσω (Homer, Iliad 18, 571; 1Ki 11:31; Mar 2:22 R G L marginal reading; Mar 9:18 (Luk 5:37 L marginal reading; (see below))); future ῤήξω; 1 aorist ἔρρηξα; present passive 3 person plural ῤήγνυνται; from Homer down; the Sept. for áÈÌ÷Çò and ÷ÈøÇò ; to rend, burst or break asunder, break up, break through;
a. universally: τούς ἀσκούς, Mar 2:22; Luk 5:37; passive, Mat 9:17; equivalent to to tear in pieces (A. V. rend): τινα, Mat 7:6.
b. namely, εὐφροσύνην (previously chained up, as it were), to break forth into joy: Gal 4:27, after Isa 54:1 (the full phrase is found in Isa 49:13; Isa 52:9; (cf. Buttmann, § 130, 5); in classical Greek ῥηγνύναι κλαυθμόν, οἰμωγήν, δάκρυα, especially φωνήν is used of infants or dumb persons beginning to speak; cf. Passow, under the word, 2, vol. ii., p. 1332{a}; (Liddell and Scott, under the word I. 4 and 5)).
c. equivalent to σπαράσσω, to distort, convulse: of a demon causing convulsions in a man possessed, Mar 9:18; Luk 9:42; in both passages many (so R. V. text) explain it to dash down, hurl to the ground (a common occurrence in cases of epilepsy); in this sense in Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 1, 60 a wrestler is said ῤῆξαι τόν ἀντιπαλον. Hesychius gives ῤῆξαι. καταβαλεῖν. Also ῥηξε. κατέβαλε. Cf. Kuinoel or Fritzsche on Mar 9:18. (Many hold that ῤήσσω in this sense is quite a different word from ῤήγνυμι (and its collateral or poetic ῤήσσω), and akin rather to (the onomatopoetic) ἀράσσω, ῤάσσω, to throw or dash down; cf. Lobeck in Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf: Spr. § 114, under the word ῤήγνυμι; Curtius, Das Verbum, pp. 162, 315; Schmidt, Syn., chapter 113, 7. See as examples Wis 4:19; Hermas, mand. 11, 3 [ET]; Apostolic Constitutions, 6, 9, p. 165, 14. Cf. προσρήγνυμι.) (Compare: διαρηγνυμι, περιρήγνυμι, προσρήγνυμι.) [SYNONYMS: ῤήγνυμι, κατάγνυμι, θραύω: ῤήγνυμι to rend, rend asunder, makes pointed reference to the separation of the parts; κατάγνυμι to break, denotes the destruction of a thing’s unity or completeness; θραύω to shatter, is suggestive of many fragments and minute dispersion. Cf. Schmidt, chapter 115]
STRONGS NT 4486: ῤήσσωῤήσσω, see ῤήγνυμι.
Englishman's Greek Concordance
ῥήγνυμι (break (forth))
Matthew 7:6
- KJV: Give not that which is holy unto the dogs neither cast ye your pearls before swine lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rend you
- GK: μη δώτε το άγιον τοις κυσί μηδέ βάλητε τους μαργαρίτας υμων έμπροσθεν των χοίρων μήποτε καταπατήσωσιν αυτούς εν τοις ποσίν αυτών και στραφέντες ρήξωσιν υμάς
Matthew 9:17
- KJV: Neither do men put new wine into old bottles else the bottles break and the wine runneth out and the bottles perish but they put new wine into new bottles and both are preserved
- GK: ουδέ βάλλουσιν οίνον νέον εις ασκούς παλαιούς ει ρήγνυνται οι ασκοί και ο οίνος εκχείται και οι ασκοί απολούνται αλλά βάλλουσιν οίνον νέον εις ασκούς καινούς και αμφότερα συντηρούνται
Mark 2:22
- KJV: And no man putteth new wine into old bottles else the new wine doth burst the bottles and the wine is spilled and the bottles will be marred but new wine must be put into new bottles
- GK: και ουδείς βάλλει οίνον νέον εις ασκούς παλαιούς ει ρήσσει ο οίνος ο νέος τους ασκούς και ο οίνος εκχείται και οι ασκοί απολούνται αλλά οίνον νέον εις ασκούς καινούς βλητέον
Mark 9:18
- KJV: And wheresoever he taketh him he teareth him and he foameth and gnasheth with his teeth and pineth away and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out and they could not
- GK: και όπου αν αυτόν καταλάβη ρήσσει αυτόν και αφρίζει και τρίζει τους οδόντας αυτού και ξηραίνεται και είπον τοις μαθηταίς σου ίνα αυτό εκβάλωσι και ουκ ίσχυσαν
Luke 5:37
- KJV: And no man putteth new wine into old bottles else the new wine will burst the bottles and be spilled and the bottles shall perish
- GK: και ουδείς βάλλει οίνον νέον εις ασκούς παλαιούς ει ρήξει ο νέος οίνος τους ασκούς και αυτός εκχυθήσεται και οι ασκοί απολούνται
Luke 9:42
- KJV: And as he was yet a coming the devil threw him down and tare And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the child and delivered him again to his father
- GK: έτι δε προσερχομένου αυτού έρρηξεν αυτόν το δαιμόνιον και συνεσπάραξεν επετίμησε δε ο Ιησούς τω πνεύματι τω ακαθάρτω και ιάσατο τον παίδα και απέδωκεν αυτόν τω πατρί αυτού
Galatians 4:27
- KJV: For it is written Rejoice barren that bearest not break forth and cry thou that travailest not for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband
- GK: γέγραπται γαρ ευφράνθητι στείρα η ου τίκτουσα ρήξον και βόησον η ουκ ωδίνουσα ότι πολλά τα τέκνα της ερήμου μάλλον η της εχούσης τον άνδρα
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