Word

κατάγνυμι

katágnymi · G2608 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

to break

To break or to shatter a rigid object

Examples
Matthew 12:20 “A BENT REED HE WILL NOT BREAK OFF, AND A DIMLY BURNING WICK HE WILL NOT EXTINGUISH, UNTIL HE LEADS JUSTICE TO VICTORY.
John 19:31 Now then, since it was the day of preparation, to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews requested of Pilate that their legs be broken, and the bodies be taken away.
John 19:32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, and of the other who was crucified with Him;

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

4 occurrences in 3 groups

Not stated: they 2
σκέλοςleg 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

σκέλοςleg 2
συντρίβωto break into pieces 1

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

οὐnot 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐρωτάωto ask, to ask for 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

To break19.35: In John 19:32, at the crucifixion it is written, “the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, and of the other who was crucified with Him,” using this word for the act of breaking something by force.

Word family 7 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ῥήγνυμι rhḗgnymi · G4486 · to tear, to rip, to burst · 7×διαῤῥήσσω diarrhḗssō · G1284 · to tear, to rip · 5×κατάγνυμιkatágnymi · G2608προσρήγνυμι prosrḗgnymi · G4366 · to strike against, to burst against · 2×ῥάκος rhákos · G4470 · patch · 2×περιῤῥήγνυμι perirrhḗgnymi · G4048 · to tear off, to strip off · 1×ῥῆγμα rhēgma · G4485 · destruction, crash · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : future κατεαξω; 1 aorist κατεαξα (impv. κάταξον, Deut 33:11); passive, 2 aorist…

: future κατεαξω; 1 aorist κατεαξα (impv. κάταξον, Deut 33:11); passive, 2 aorist κατεάγην, whence subjunctive 3 person plural κατεαγῶσιν; 1 aorist κατεαχθην in the Sept. Jer 31:25 25; (on the syllabic augment of these forms cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 97f, cf. i., p. 323f; Matthiae, i., p. 520f; Winers Grammar, § 12, 2; (Curtius, Das Verbum, i., p. 118; Veitch, under the word; Kuenen and Cobet, N. T., Praef., p. lxxix.)); from Homer down; to break: τί, Mt 12:20; Jn 19:31-33. (Synonym: see Schmidt, chapter 115, 5 and cf. ῤήγνυμι.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Break, Break Through4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0