Strong G4048περιρρήγνυμι

to strip off

Transliteration
perirrhēgnumi
Pronunciation
per-ir-hrayg'-noo-mee
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G4012 and G4486; to tear all around that is completely away: - rend off.

Detailed definition

περι-ρήγνυμι
(Rec. -ρρ-, see supr.) [in LXX: 2Ma.4:38 *;]
to break or tear off all around: frequently of garments, τ. ἰμάτια, Act.16:22.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G4048 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • rend1

First verses

  1. Acts 16:22
    And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
περιρρήγνῡμι
and περιρρηγνύω [Refs 1st c.AD+ ((1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Publicola” 6))], break off all round, τὸν γήλοφον κύκλῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 113d)]: frequently of clothes, rend and tear off, τὸν χιτωνίσκον [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.197; τὴν χλαμύδα 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 15.33.4)]: also with accusative person, strip, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Parthenius Mythographus 15.3:)] —middle, περιερρήξατο τοὺς πέπλους tore off her own garments, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Antonius” 77, compare 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.44: _absolutely_, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 9.7.3, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 7.24.3, 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 35.9; [γυναῖκες], περιερρηγμέναι [prev. author] 46.12:)] —passive, with aorist 2 -ερράγην, intransitive perfect περιέρρωγα, περιρρηγνυμένων φαρέων [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 328 (Lyric poetry))]; of the case or membrane that encloses pupa or shellfish, περιρρήγνυται τὸ κέλυφος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 551a23, compare 552a6; περιερρωγέναι τὸ ὄστρακον [prev. work] 601a13)] (so in active, ἡ σχάδων.. τὸν ὑμένα περιρρήξας (sic) ἐκπέταται[Refs ([prev. work] 554a30)].—middle, τὰ ζῷα τὰ ἐκ τῶν σκωλήκων περιρρηγνύμενα[Refs ([prev. work] 552a9); πέτρα περιρραγεῖσα [prev. work] 578b22)]; of dead flesh, break away, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 26.)]
II cause a stream to break or divide round a piece of land, [Βούσιρις] τὸν Νεῖλον περὶ τὴν χώραν περιέρρηξε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 11.31)]:—passive, τοῦ Δέλτα κατὰ τὸ ὀξὺ περιρρήγνυται ὁ Νεῖλος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.16, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 7.24)]; βρονταὶ περιερρήγνυντο kept breaking round a place, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Crassus” 19.)]
III break a thing round or on another, wreck, τὸ σκαφίδιον πρὸς πέτραν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Merc.Cond.” 2, compare 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 1.114; ἀλλήλοισι π. ἀέλλας 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 8.61.)]
IV ὄρος περιερρωγός broken all round, i.e. precipitous, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Nicolaus Damascenus Historicus 1 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus)]