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Dictionaries :: Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake

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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
A-1 Verb Strong's Number: g2806 Greek: klao | klazo

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

"to break, to break off pieces," is used of "breaking bread,"

(a) of the Lord's act in providing for people, Mat 14:19; 15:36; Mar 8:6, 19;

(b) of the "breaking of bread" in the Lord's Supper, Mat 26:26; Mar 14:22; Luk 22:19; Act 20:7; 1Cr 10:16; 11:24;

(c) of an ordinary meal, Act 2:46; 20:11; 27:35;

(d) of the Lord's act in giving evidence of His resurrection, Luk 24:30.

A-2 Verb Strong's Number: g1575 Greek: ekklao

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

ek, "off," and No. 1, "to break off," is used metaphorically of branches, Rom 11:17, 19, 20.

A-3 Verb Strong's Number: g2622 Greek: kataklao

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

kata, "down," and No. 1, is used in Mar 6:41; Luk 9:16, of Christ's "breaking" loaves for the multitudes.

A-4 Verb Strong's Number: g3089 Greek: luo

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

"to loosen," especially by way of deliverance, sometimes has the meaning of "breaking, destructively," e.g., of "breaking" commandments, not only infringing them, but loosing the force of them, rendering them not binding, Mat 5:19; Jhn 5:18; of "breaking" the Law of Moses, Jhn 7:23; Scripture, Jhn 10:35; of the "breaking up" of a ship, Act 27:41; of the "breaking down" of the middle wall of partition, Eph 2:14; of the marriage tie, 1Cr 7:27.
See DESTROY, DISSOLVE, LOOSE, MELT, PUT, Note (5), UNLOOSE.

A-5 Verb Strong's Number: g4937 Greek: suntribo

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

lit., "to rub together," and so "to shatter, shiver, break in pieces by crushing," is said of the bruising of a reed, Mat 12:20 (No. 9 is used in the next clause); the "breaking" of fetters in pieces, Mar 5:4; the "breaking" of an alabaster cruse, Mar 14:3; an earthenware vessel, Rev 2:27; of the physical bruising of a person possessed by a demon, Luk 9:39; concerning Christ, "a bone of Him shall not be broken," Jhn 19:36; metaphorically of the crushed condition of a "broken-hearted" person, Luk 4:18 (AV only); of the eventual crushing of Satan, Rom 16:20.
See BRUISE.

This verb is frequent in the Sept. in the Passive Voice, e.g., Psa 51:17; Isa 57:15, of a contrite heart, perhaps a figure of stones made smooth by being rubbed together in streams. Cp. suntrimma, "destruction."

A-6 Verb Strong's Number: g4486 Greek: rhegnumi

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

"to tear, rend, as of garments, etc.," is translated "break" in the AV, of Mat 9:17, of wine-skins (RV, "burst"); as in Mar 2:22; Luk 5:37; "break forth" in Gal 4:27.
See BURST, REND, TEAR.

A-7 Verb Strong's Number: g1284 Greek: diarrhegnumi

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

dia, "through" (intensive), and No. 6, "to burst asunder, to rend, cleave," is said of the rending of garments, Mat 26:65; Mar 14:63; Act 14:14; of the "breaking" of a net, Luk 5:6; of fetters, 8:29.
See REND.

A-8 Verb Strong's Number: g4366 Greek: prosrhegnumi

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

See BEAT, No. 8.

A-9 Verb Strong's Number: g2608 Greek: katagnumi

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

kata, "down" (intensive), and No. 6, is used of the "breaking" of a bruised reed, Mat 12:20, and of the "breaking" of the legs of those who were crucified, Jhn 19:31, 32, 33.

A-10 Verb Strong's Number: g4917 Greek: sunthlao

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

sun, "together" (intensive), and thlao, "to break or crush, to break in pieces, to shatter," is used in Mat 21:44; Luk 20:18 of the physical effect of falling on a stone.

A-11 Verb Strong's Number: g4919 Greek: sunthrupto

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

sun, and thrupto, "to crush, to break small, weaken," is used metaphorically of "breaking" one's heart, Act 21:13.

A-12 Verb Strong's Number: g4977 Greek: schizo

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

"to split, to rend open," is said of the veil of the temple, Mat 27:51; the rending of rocks, Mat 27:51; the rending of the heavens, Mar 1:10; a garment, Luk 5:36; Jhn 19:24; a net, Jhn 21:11; in the Passive Voice, metaphorically, of being divided into factions, Act 14:4; 23:7.
See DIVINE, Note, OPEN, REND, RENT.

Note: Cp. schisma (Eng., "schism"), said of the rent in a garment, Mat 9:16.
See DIVISION, RENT, SCHISM.

A-13 Verb Strong's Number: g1358 Greek: diorusso

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

lit., "to dig through" (dia, "through," orusso, "to dig"), is used of the act of thieves in "breaking" into a house, Mat 6:19, 20; 24:43; Luk 12:39.

A-14 Verb Strong's Number: g1846 Greek: exorusso

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

lit., "to dig out" (cp. No. 13), is used of the "breaking up" of part of a roof, Mar 2:4, and, in a vivid expression, of plucking out the eyes, Gal 4:15.
See PLUCK.

Note: For aristao, "to break one's fast," see DINE.

B-1 Noun Strong's Number: g2800 Greek: klasis

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

"a breaking" (akin to A, No. 1), is used in Luk 24:35; Act 2:42, of the "breaking" of bread.

B-2 Noun Strong's Number: g2801 Greek: klasma

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

"a broken piece, fragment," is always used of remnants of food, Mat 14:20; 15:37 and corresponding passages.
See PIECE.

B-3 Noun Strong's Number: g3847 Greek: parabasis

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

"a transgression" (para, "across," baino, "to go"), is translated "breaking" in Rom 2:23, AV; RV, "transgression;" AV and RV ditto in Rom 4:15; 5:14; Gal 3:19; 1Ti 2:14; Hbr 2:2; 9:15.
See TRANSGRESSION.

B-4 Noun Strong's Number: g3848 Greek: parabates

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

"a transgressor" (cp. No. 3), is translated "breaker," Rom 2:25, AV; RV, "transgressor." In Rom 2:27 the AV turns it into a verb, "dost transgress." See Gal 2:18; Jam 2:9, 11.

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