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περιῤῥήγνυμι

perirrhḗgnymi · G4048 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to tear off, to strip off

    To tear off or to strip off, as of clothing

    Examples

    Acts 16:22 The crowd joined in an attack against them, and the chief magistrates tore their robes off them and proceeded to order them to be beaten with rods.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Who or what does itSubject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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
קָרַע qâraʻ · H7167 · to tear, to rend, to cut
Hebrew translation-equivalent for the action of tearing/rending; standard Hebrew verb used to translate Greek tearing verbs in the LXX context
Semantic domains 1 entry
To tear off, to strip off19.33
περιρήγνυμι describes violently tearing clothing away from a person. Luke's account of Paul and Silas at Philippi describes the magistrates' treatment of them: “the chief magistrates tore their robes off them and proceeded to order them to be beaten with rods” (Acts 16:22).
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×κατάγνυμι katágnymi · G2608 · to break · 4×προσρήγνυμι prosrḗgnymi · G4366 · to strike against, to burst against · 2×ῥάκος rhákos · G4470 · patch · 2×περιῤῥήγνυμιperirrhḗgnymi · G4048ῥῆγμα rhēgma · G4485 · destruction, crash · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (L T Tr WH περιρήγνυμι, with one rho ῥ; see the preceding word): 1 aorist participle…
(L T Tr WH περιρήγνυμι, with one rho ῥ; see the preceding word): 1 aorist participle plural περιρρήξαντες; (περί and ῤήγνυμι); to break off on all sides, break off all round (cf. περί, III. 1): τό ἱμάτιον, to rend or tear off all around, Acts 16:22. So of garments also in 2 Macc. 4:38 and often in secular authors; Aeschylus sept. 329; Demosthenes, p. 403, 3; Polybius 15, 33, 4; Diodorus 17, 35.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Split, Tear1 occurrence

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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