schizō (to split)

Meaning

Usually translated “was torn”, “was divided” and “were split”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

was torn 4
was divided 2
were split 1
tearing open 1
will tear 1
let us tear up 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Mark 2
Luke 2
John 2
Acts 2
Matthew 1

5 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Mark 1:10And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
Mark 15:38And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
Luke 5:36And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.
Luke 23:45And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
John 19:24They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
John 21:11Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.

All 9 verses, by book

Matthew 1: 27:51
Mark 2: 1:10 15:38
Luke 2: 5:36 23:45
John 2: 19:24 21:11
Acts 2: 14:4 23:7

Greek dictionary

σχίζω schizō · to split

σχίζω [in LXX chiefly for בָּקַע ;] to cleave, rend: Mat.27:51, Mrk.1:10 15:38, Luk.5:36 23:45, Jhn.19:24 21:11; metaphorically, in pass., to be divided into factions, Act.14:4 23:7.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “split” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SPLIT, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive split [G. See Spalt.]

To divide longitudinally or lengthwise; to separate a thing from end to end by force; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber; to split a board.
To rend; to tear asunder by violence; to burst; as, to split a rock or a sail.
To divide; to part; as, to split a hair.
To dash and break on a rock; as, a ship stranded and split

All definitions and other forms of “split”

To divide; to break into discord; as a people split into parties.
To strain and pain with laughter; as, to split the sides.

SPLIT, verb intransitive

To burst; to part asunder; to suffer disruption; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them.
To burst with laughter.
To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.