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Tear

15Greek/Hebrew entries

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Greek G1144 dákry

Original: δάκρυ

Meaning:
of uncertain affinity; a tear:--tear.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: a tear:--tear.

Greek G1284 diarrhḗssō

Original: διαῤῥήσσω

Meaning:
from διά and ῥήγνυμι; to tear asunder:--break, rend.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: to tear asunder:--break, rend.

Greek G4048 perirrhḗgnymi

Original: περιῤῥήγνυμι

Meaning:
from περί and ῥήγνυμι; to tear all around, i.e. completely away:--rend off.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: to tear all around, i.e. completely away:--rend off.

Greek G4366 prosrḗgnymi

Original: προσρήγνυμι

Meaning:
from πρός and ῥήγνυμι; to tear towards, i.e. burst upon (as a tempest or flood):--beat vehemently against (upon).

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: to tear towards, i.e. burst upon (as a tempest or flood):--beat vehemently against (upon).

Greek G4486 rhḗgnymi

Original: ῥήγνυμι

Meaning:
both prolonged forms of (which appears only in certain forms, and is itself probably a strengthened form of agnumi (see in κατάγνυμι)); to "break," "wreck" or "crack", i.e. (especially) to sunder (by separation of the parts; κατάγνυμι being its intensive (with the preposition in composition), and θραύω a shattering to minute fragments; but not a reduction to the constituent particles, like λύω) or disrupt, lacerate; by implication, to convulse (with spasms); figuratively, to give vent to joyful emotions:--break (forth), burst, rend, tear.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: figuratively, to give vent to joyful emotions:--break (forth), burst, rend, tear.

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Greek G4682 sparássō

Original: σπαράσσω

Meaning:
prolongation from (to grasp; apparently strengthened from σπάω through the idea of spasmodic contraction); to mangle, i.e. convluse with epilepsy:--rend, tear.

Hebrew H1234 bâqaʻ

Original: בָּקַע

Meaning:
a primitive root; to cleave; generally, to rend, break, rip or open; make a breach, break forth (into, out, in pieces, through, up), be ready to burst, cleave (asunder), cut out, divide, hatch, rend (asunder), rip up, tear, win.

Hebrew H1497 gâzal

Original: גָּזַל

Meaning:
a primitive root; to pluck off; specifically to flay, strip or rob; catch, consume, exercise (robbery), pluck (off), rob, spoil, take away (by force, violence), tear.

Hebrew H1758 dûwsh

Original: דּוּשׁ

Meaning:
or דּוֹשׁ; or דִּישׁ; a primitive root; to trample or thresh; break, tear, thresh, tread out (down), at grass (Jeremiah 50:11, by mistake for דֶּשֶׁא).

Hebrew H2963 ṭâraph

Original: טָרַף

Meaning:
a primitive root; to pluck off or pull to pieces; causatively to supply with food (as in morsels); catch, [idiom] without doubt, feed, ravin, rend in pieces, [idiom] surely, tear (in pieces).

Hebrew H5498 çâchab

Original: סָחַב

Meaning:
a primitive root; to trail along; draw (out), tear.

Hebrew H6536 pâraç

Original: פָּרַס

Meaning:
a primitive root; to break in pieces, i.e. (usually without violence) to split, distribute; deal, divide, have hoofs, part, tear.

Hebrew H6561 pâraq

Original: פָּרַק

Meaning:
a primitive root; to break off or crunch; figuratively, to deliver; break (off), deliver, redeem, rend (in pieces), tear in pieces.

Hebrew H7167 qâraʻ

Original: קָרַע

Meaning:
a primitive root; to rend, literally or figuratively (revile, paint the eyes, as if enlarging them); cut out, rend, [idiom] surely, tear.

Hebrew H7665 shâbar

Original: שָׁבַר

Meaning:
a primitive root; to burst (literally or figuratively); break (down, off, in pieces, up), broken (-hearted), bring to the birth, crush, destroy, hurt, quench, [idiom] quite, tear, view (by mistake for שָׂבַר).

Verses containing this word showing 13 of 13

^{Judges 8:7} And Gideon said, Therefore when the LORD hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers. Open

^{Psalm 7:2} Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. Open

^{Psalm 35:15} But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: Open

^{Psalm 50:22} Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. Open

^{Jeremiah 15:3} And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy. Open

^{Jeremiah 16:7} Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. Open

^{Ezekiel 13:20} Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly. Open

^{Ezekiel 13:21} Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Open

^{Hosea 5:14} For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him. Open

^{Hosea 13:8} I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. Open

^{Amos 1:11} Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever: Open

^{Nahum 2:12} The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin. Open

^{Zechariah 11:16} For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces. Open

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