Word

κλάσις

klásis · G2800 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

to break, to break bread

To break an object into two or more parts (in the NT κλάω and κλάσις are used exclusively for breaking bread)

Examples
Luke 24:35 They began to relate their experiences on the road, and how He was recognized by them at the breaking of the bread.
Acts 2:42 They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

How it’s used In 3 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ἄρτοςbread, loaf 2

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

εἰμίto be 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐνin 2

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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In the other Testament 1 word

שֶׁבֶר sheber · H7667 · breaking, breach, injury: šeber is the standard Hebrew term for 'fracture' or 'breaking,' often used for literal breaking of objects or metaphorical destruction, directly equivalent to κλάσις as the act/result of breaking

Semantic domains 1 entry

To break, to break bread19.34: κλάσις names the act of breaking, especially of bread. Luke 24:35 recounts how the disciples on the road to Emmaus recognized the risen Jesus “at the breaking of the bread,” the κλάσις being that specific, familiar act of breaking bread by which they knew Him.

Word family 7 words

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

κλάω kláō · G2806 · to break, to break bread, to eat a meal · 14×κλάδος kládos · G2798 · branch (of a tree or woody shrub) · 11×κλάσμα klásma · G2801 · fragment, piece · 9×κλῆμα klēma · G2814 · branch (principally of grapevines) · 4×ἐκκλάω ekkláō · G1575 · to break off · 3×κατακλάω katakláō · G2622 · to break into pieces · 2×κλάσιςklásis · G2800

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κλασεως, ἡ (κλάω, which see), a breaking: τοῦ ἄρτου, Lk 24:35; Acts 2:42. (Plato,…

κλασεως, ἡ (κλάω, which see), a breaking: τοῦ ἄρτου, Lk 24:35; Acts 2:42. (Plato, Theophrastus, others.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Break, Break Through2 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