Strong G4977σχίζω
to split
- Transliteration
- schizō
- Pronunciation
- skhid'-zo
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Apparently a primary verb; to split or sever (literally or figuratively): - break divide open rend make a rent.
Detailed definition
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)
[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)
In the Bible
Strong G4977 appears in 9 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- rent4
- divide2
- rend2
- be1
- break1
- let1
- open1
First verses
- Matthew 27:51And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
- 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.
- Acts 14:4But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
- Acts 23:7And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
σχίζω,
[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.17, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 99 (_anapaest meter_))], etc.: poetry imperfect σχίζον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.228)]: future σχίσω [LXX (LXX.Sus.55)]: aorist ἔσχισα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.507 (ἀπο-), “hymnus ad Mercurium” 128, etc.)], Epic dialect σχίσσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 428)]:—passive, future σχισθήσομαι [LXX (LXX.Zech.14.4:)]perfect ἔσχισμαι (see. below):—split, cleave, ῥινὸν ὀνύχεσσι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus [same place])]; ἔσχισε δώδεκα μοίρας, i.e. divided them into twelve parts, [Refs (“hymnus ad Mercurium”)][same place]; σ. νῶτον γᾶς, of the plough, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus [same place]; σχίσσαις κεραυνῷ Ζεὺς χθόνα [prev. author] “N.” 9.24; ποδὶ γᾶν [prev. author] “fragment” 167; κάρα πελέκει 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus [same place])]; especially of wood, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.12, etc.)]; of the wind, σ. περὶ πρῷραν τὰ κύματα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 25 (uncertain); but πρῷρα σ. τὸ κῦμα 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 6; [θάλασσα] σχιζομένη ταῖς κώπαις “Placita Philosophorum” 3.3.2)]; ἔσχισε νῆα θάλασσα shattered it, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.40 (1st c.BC: Zosimus Epigrammaticus))]; σ. ὑποδήματα cut out, opposed to νευρορραφεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.2.5 (compare πρόσχισμα))]; tear, ἱμάτιον [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum”; τριβώνιον ἐσχισμένον “BGU” 928.20, 22 (3rd c.AD))]; οἱ ἀποθανόντες ἐσχισμένοις ἐνειλοῦνται ῥάκεσιν ὡς καὶ τὰ βρέφη [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Artemidorus Daldianus Onirocriticus 1.13.)]
2 generally, part, separate, divide, Νεῖλος μέσην Αἴγυπτον σχίζων Hdt.[same place],[Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare 4.49; σ. διχῇ τὸ γένος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 264d; κατὰ μῆκος [prev. author] “Ti.” 36b)]; σ. τὰς φλέβας divide them, [Refs ([prev. work] 77d)]:—passive, σχισθέντα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 623; φλὲψ σχιζομένη 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 20; ἐσχίσθη ὁ ποταμός 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.75)]; Νεῖλος σχίζεται τριφασίας ὁδούς branches into three channels, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.17, compare 15 (so ὁ λύχνος ἔσχισται διδύμην φλόγα “Anthologia Graeca” 12.199 (2nd c.AD: Strato Epigrammaticus)); περὶ ὃ σχίζεται τὸ τοῦ Νείλου ῥεῦμα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 21e; σχιζομένης τῆς ὁδοῦ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.31)]; ἡ στρατιὴ ἐσχίζετο the army divided, [Refs ([prev. author] 8.34)]; of a bird's wings (compare σχιζόπτερος), [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 642b28)]; of feet divided into toes (compare σχιζόπους), [Refs ([prev. author] “HA” 494a12)]; and of various parts of the body,[Refs ([prev. work] 495b4, 507a13)]; branch off, ἀπὸ [τοῦ στελέχους] [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.1.9; φύλλα ἐσχισμένα εἰς έ μοίρας 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.41.)]
3 σχίζειν γάλα make milk curdle, i. e. separate the whey from the curds, [Refs ([prev. author] 2.70; compare σχίσις 2.)]
II metaphorically of divided opinions, σφεων ἐσχίζοντο αἱ γνῶμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.219, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.59; ἐσχίσθησαν ταῖς γνώμαις 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.728)]. (Cf. Latin scindo, Gothic skaidan 'separate', etc.)
[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.17, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 99 (_anapaest meter_))], etc.: poetry imperfect σχίζον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.228)]: future σχίσω [LXX (LXX.Sus.55)]: aorist ἔσχισα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.507 (ἀπο-), “hymnus ad Mercurium” 128, etc.)], Epic dialect σχίσσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 428)]:—passive, future σχισθήσομαι [LXX (LXX.Zech.14.4:)]perfect ἔσχισμαι (see. below):—split, cleave, ῥινὸν ὀνύχεσσι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus [same place])]; ἔσχισε δώδεκα μοίρας, i.e. divided them into twelve parts, [Refs (“hymnus ad Mercurium”)][same place]; σ. νῶτον γᾶς, of the plough, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus [same place]; σχίσσαις κεραυνῷ Ζεὺς χθόνα [prev. author] “N.” 9.24; ποδὶ γᾶν [prev. author] “fragment” 167; κάρα πελέκει 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus [same place])]; especially of wood, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.12, etc.)]; of the wind, σ. περὶ πρῷραν τὰ κύματα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 25 (uncertain); but πρῷρα σ. τὸ κῦμα 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 6; [θάλασσα] σχιζομένη ταῖς κώπαις “Placita Philosophorum” 3.3.2)]; ἔσχισε νῆα θάλασσα shattered it, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 9.40 (1st c.BC: Zosimus Epigrammaticus))]; σ. ὑποδήματα cut out, opposed to νευρορραφεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.2.5 (compare πρόσχισμα))]; tear, ἱμάτιον [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum”; τριβώνιον ἐσχισμένον “BGU” 928.20, 22 (3rd c.AD))]; οἱ ἀποθανόντες ἐσχισμένοις ἐνειλοῦνται ῥάκεσιν ὡς καὶ τὰ βρέφη [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Artemidorus Daldianus Onirocriticus 1.13.)]
2 generally, part, separate, divide, Νεῖλος μέσην Αἴγυπτον σχίζων Hdt.[same place],[Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare 4.49; σ. διχῇ τὸ γένος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 264d; κατὰ μῆκος [prev. author] “Ti.” 36b)]; σ. τὰς φλέβας divide them, [Refs ([prev. work] 77d)]:—passive, σχισθέντα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 623; φλὲψ σχιζομένη 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 20; ἐσχίσθη ὁ ποταμός 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.75)]; Νεῖλος σχίζεται τριφασίας ὁδούς branches into three channels, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 2.17, compare 15 (so ὁ λύχνος ἔσχισται διδύμην φλόγα “Anthologia Graeca” 12.199 (2nd c.AD: Strato Epigrammaticus)); περὶ ὃ σχίζεται τὸ τοῦ Νείλου ῥεῦμα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 21e; σχιζομένης τῆς ὁδοῦ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.31)]; ἡ στρατιὴ ἐσχίζετο the army divided, [Refs ([prev. author] 8.34)]; of a bird's wings (compare σχιζόπτερος), [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 642b28)]; of feet divided into toes (compare σχιζόπους), [Refs ([prev. author] “HA” 494a12)]; and of various parts of the body,[Refs ([prev. work] 495b4, 507a13)]; branch off, ἀπὸ [τοῦ στελέχους] [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.1.9; φύλλα ἐσχισμένα εἰς έ μοίρας 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.41.)]
3 σχίζειν γάλα make milk curdle, i. e. separate the whey from the curds, [Refs ([prev. author] 2.70; compare σχίσις 2.)]
II metaphorically of divided opinions, σφεων ἐσχίζοντο αἱ γνῶμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.219, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.59; ἐσχίσθησαν ταῖς γνώμαις 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.728)]. (Cf. Latin scindo, Gothic skaidan 'separate', etc.)