To tear
διαρρήγνυμιStrong’s G1284diarrēgnumi
Appears in 5 verses of the New Testament
In short
Diarrēgnumi is the Greek word usually translated “having torn”, “tears” and “were breaking”. It appears in 5 verses of the New Testament.
“Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.”
Meaning
Usually translated “having torn”, “tears” and “were breaking”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- having torn 2
- tears 1
- were breaking 1
- breaking 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 2
- Matthew 1
- Mark 1
- Acts 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Mark 14:63Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?
- Luke 5:6And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.
- Luke 8:29(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
- Acts 14:14Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,
Greek dictionary
διαρρήγνυμι diarrēgnumi · to tear
δια-ρήσσω (so WH, exc. Ac, l.with), δια-ρρήσσω (poetic and late form of διαρρήγνυμι), [in LXX chiefly for קָרָא ;] to break asunder, burst, rend: δεσμά, Luk.8:29; pass., δίκτυα, Luk.5:6; ἱμάτια, χιτῶνας, in grief or anger (as Gen.37:29, al.), Mat.26:65, Act.14:14, Mrk.14:63.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tear” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TEAR, noun
- Tears are the limpid fluid secreted by the lacrymal gland, and appearing in the eyes, or flowing from them.
- Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter.
All definitions and other forms of “tear”
TEAR, verb transitive
[Latin tero.]
- To separate by violence or pulling; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment, to tear the skin or flesh.
- To wound; to lacerate.
- To rend; to break; to form fissures by any violence; as, torrents tear the ground.
- To divide by violent measures; to shatter; to rend; as a state or government torn by factions.
- To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
- To remove by violence; to break up.
- To make a violent rent.
TEAR, verb intransitive
To rave; to rage; to rant; to move and act with turbulent violence; as a mad bull.
TEAR, noun
A rent; a fissure. [Little used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.