ῥήγνυμι
rhḗgnymi · G4486 · Greek · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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to tear, to rip, to burst
To tear, rip, or burst, either from internal or external forces, with the implication of sudden and forceful action
ExamplesMatthew 7:6 “Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
Matthew 9:17 “Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”
Mark 2:22 “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.”
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to begin to shout, to shout
To suddenly break out into shouting
ExamplesGalatians 4:27 For it is written: “REJOICE, INFERTILE ONE, YOU WHO DO NOT GIVE BIRTH; BREAK FORTH AND SHOUT, YOU WHO ARE NOT IN LABOR; FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE DESOLATE ONE ARE MORE NUMEROUS THAN THOSE OF THE ONE WHO HAS A HUSBAND.”
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to throw down in convulsions, to throw into a fit
To cause to fall to the ground in convulsions
ExamplesMark 9:18 and whenever it seizes him, it slams him to the ground, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth and becomes stiff. And I told Your disciples so that they would cast it out, but they could not do it.”
Luke 9:42 Now while he was still approaching, the demon slammed him to the ground and threw him into a convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy and gave him back to his father.
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
Who or what does itSubject
7 occurrences in 6 groups
- οἶνοςwine 2
- δαιμόνιονdemon, evil spirit 1
- ἀσκόςwineskin 1
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
- Not stated: they 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἀσκόςwineskin 2
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2
- σύyou 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- בָּקַע bâqaʻ · H1234 · to be split, to be cleft, to be breached
- Hebrew בָּקַע (bâqaʻ, H1234) denotes splitting, cleaving, or breaking through with emphasis on creating a breach or opening, while Greek ῥήγνυμι (rhḗgnymi, G4486) focuses on the act of breaking, bursting, or shattering with violent separation of parts; both share the core semantic domain of forceful division or rupture.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- To tear, to rip, to burst19.31
- The verb describes the tearing or bursting apart of a container under strain. Jesus explains that new wine is not put into old wineskins: “otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well” (Mark 2:22).
- To throw down in convulsions, to throw into a fit23.168
- The same verb also describes the violent physical seizure caused by an unclean spirit. The father describes his son's affliction: “whenever it seizes him, it slams him to the ground, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth” (Mark 9:18).
- To begin to shout, to shout33.85
- In a different context the verb pictures a joyful outcry breaking forth. Paul quotes the prophecy to the barren woman: “BREAK FORTH AND SHOUT, YOU WHO ARE NOT IN LABOR” (Galatians 4:27).
- To break forth with, to burst into68.81
- The verb also marks the sudden onset of a violent action. The demon threw the approaching boy to the ground: “the demon slammed him to the ground and threw him into a convulsion” (Luke 9:42); a man rejecting Jesus' teaching risks the same sudden ruin, “or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces” (Matthew 7:6).
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root ῥήγνυμι
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (Mt 9:17) and ῤήσσω (Homer, Iliad 18, 571; 1 Kgs 11:31; Mk 2:22 R G L marginal reading;…
a. universally: τούς ἀσκούς, Mk 2:22; Lk 5:37; passive, Mt 9:17; equivalent to to tear in pieces (A. V. rend): τινα, Mt 7:6.
b. namely, εὐφροσύνην (previously chained up, as it were), to break forth into joy: Gal 4:27, after Isa 54:1 (the full phrase is found in Isa 49:13; Isa 52:9; (cf. Buttmann, § 130, 5); in classical Greek ῥηγνύναι κλαυθμόν, οἰμωγήν, δάκρυα, especially φωνήν is used of infants or dumb persons beginning to speak; cf. Passow, under the word, 2, vol. ii., p. 1332{a}; (Liddell and Scott, under the word I. 4 and 5)).
c. equivalent to σπαράσσω, to distort, convulse: of a demon causing convulsions in a man possessed, Mk 9:18; Lk 9:42; in both passages many (so R. V. text) explain it to dash down, hurl to the ground (a common occurrence in cases of epilepsy); in this sense in Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 1, 60 a wrestler is said ῤῆξαι τόν ἀντιπαλον. Hesychius gives ῤῆξαι. καταβαλεῖν. Also ῥηξε. κατέβαλε. Cf. Kuinoel or Fritzsche on Mk 9:18. (Many hold that ῤήσσω in this sense is quite a different word from ῤήγνυμι (and its collateral or poetic ῤήσσω), and akin rather to (the onomatopoetic) ἀράσσω, ῤάσσω, to throw or dash down; cf. Lobeck in Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf: Spr. § 114, under the word ῤήγνυμι; Curtius, Das Verbum, pp. 162, 315; Schmidt, Syn., chapter 113, 7. See as examples Wis. 4:19; Hermas, mand. 11, 3 [ET]; Apostolic Constitutions, 6, 9, p. 165, 14. Cf. προσρήγνυμι.) (Compare: διαρηγνυμι, περιρήγνυμι, προσρήγνυμι.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 4 entries
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
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