ῥῆγμα
rhēgma · G4485 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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destruction, crash
The event of destruction, involving splitting open and breaking
ExamplesLuke 6:49 “But the one who has heard and has not acted accordingly is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation; and the river burst against it and it immediately collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.”
How it’s used In 2 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οἰκίαhouse, home, dwelling 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μέγαςgreat, large 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- κλάσμα klásma · G2801 · fragment, piece
- κλάσμα (from κλάω 'to break') denotes a broken piece or fragment, paralleling ῥῆγμα's primary sense as 'something torn' or a fragment resulting from breaking; both refer to pieces resulting from violent separation, though κλάσμα typically implies breaking while ῥῆγμα implies tearing or rupture
In the other Testament 2 words
- שֶׁבֶר sheber · H7667 · breaking, breach, injury
- שֶׁבֶר is the standard Hebrew term for a break, fracture, or ruin, semantically equivalent to ῥῆγμα as 'something broken/torn' or 'a crash/fall'; both denote the result of breaking or rupture
- מַפֶּלֶת mappeleth · H4658 · carcass, dead body, fallen tree
- מַפֶּלֶת denotes a collapse or fall (from נָפַל 'to fall'), matching the abstract sense of ῥῆγμα as 'a fall' or ruin; both describe catastrophic structural failure
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Destruction, crash20.58
- The noun names the resulting devastation of a collapse. Jesus warns that a house built without a foundation falls when the flood strikes it: “the river burst against it and it immediately collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great” (Luke 6:49).
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ῥηγματος, τό (ῤήγνυμι), what has been broken or rent asunder; a. a fracture, breach,…
a. a fracture, breach, cleft: Hippocrates (), Demosthenes, (Aristotle), Polybius, others; for בָּקִיעַ, Amos 6:11, Alex.;
b. plural for קְרָעִים, torn clothes: 1 Kgs 11:30; 2 Kgs 2:12.
c. fall, ruin: Lk 6:49.
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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