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Lexicon :: Strong's G4977 - schizō

Aa
σχίζω
Transliteration
schizō (Key)
Pronunciation
skhid'-zo
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a primary verb
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:959,1130

Strong’s Definitions

σχίζω schízō, skhid'-zo; apparently a primary verb; to split or sever (literally or figuratively):—break, divide, open, rend, make a rent.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's G4977 in the following manner: rend (5x), divide (2x), open (1x), break (1x), make a rent (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's G4977 in the following manner: rend (5x), divide (2x), open (1x), break (1x), make a rent (1x).

  1. to cleave, cleave asunder, rend

  2. to divide by rending

  3. to split into factions, be divided

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
σχίζω schízō, skhid'-zo; apparently a primary verb; to split or sever (literally or figuratively):—break, divide, open, rend, make a rent.
STRONGS G4977:
σχίζω ((Luke 5:36 R G L marginal reading)); future (σχίσω (Luke 5:36 L text T Tr text WH (cf. Buttmann, 37 (32f))); 1 aorist ἐσχισα; passive, present participle σχιζόμενος; 1 aorist ἐσχίσθην; (allied with Latinscindo, caedo, etc. (cf. Curtius, § 295)); from ((Homer h. Merc.)) Hesiod down; the Sept. several times for בָּקַע, Isaiah 37:1 for קָרַע; to cleave, cleave asunder, rend: τί, Luke 5:36; passive, αἱ πέτραι, Matthew 27:51; οἱ οὐρανοί, Mark 1:10; τό καταπέτασμα, Luke 23:45; with εἰς δύο added, into two parts, in twain ((εἰς δύο μέρη, of a river, Polybius 2, 16, 11)), Matthew 27:51; Mark 15:38; τό δίκτυον, John 21:11; to divide by rending, τί, John 19:24. tropically, in the passive, to be split into factions, be divided: Acts 14:4; Acts 23:7, (Xenophon, conv. 4, 59; τοῦ πλήθους σχιζομενου κατά αἵρεσιν, Diodorus 12, 66).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
37:1
Matthew
27:51; 27:51
Mark
1:10; 15:38
Luke
5:36; 5:36; 5:36; 23:45
John
19:24; 21:11
Acts
14:4; 23:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4977 matches the Greek σχίζω (schizō),
which occurs 8 times in 8 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:3 - So Abraham got up early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac; and he split wood for the burnt offering, and set out and went to the place of which God had told him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:21 -

Then Moses reached out with his hand over the sea; and the LORD [fn]swept the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:14 - And the cart came into the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite and stopped there where there was a large stone; and they split the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:9 - One who quarries stones may be hurt by them, and one who splits logs may be endangered by them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:22 - Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the secretary, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and reported to him the words of Rabshakeh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:1 -

Now when King Hezekiah heard the report, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:21 -

They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts.

He made the water flow out of the rock for them;

He split the rock and the water gushed out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:4 - On that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which is in front of Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split [fn]in its middle from east to west forming a very large valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and the other half toward the south.
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