Word

κατακλάω

katakláō · G2622 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to break into pieces

    To break into pieces, implying thoroughness of the activity (in contrast with κλάω)

    Examples

    Mark 6:41 And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food and broke the loaves and He gave them to the disciples again and again to set before them; and He divided the two fish among them all.

    Luke 9:16 And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and, looking up to heaven, He blessed them and broke them, and gave them to the disciples again and again, to serve the crowd.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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Semantic domains 1 entry
To break into pieces19.38
In Mark 6:41, of the feeding of the five thousand it is written, “He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food and broke the loaves,” using this word for the act of breaking bread into pieces.
Word family 7 words
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κατάκλω: 1 aorist κατέκλασα; from Homer down; to break in pieces (cf. German zerbrechen…
κατάκλω: 1 aorist κατέκλασα; from Homer down; to break in pieces (cf. German zerbrechen (see κατά, III. 4)): τούς ἄρτους, Mk 6:41; Lk 9:16.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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

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