Dictionaries :: Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake

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.

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

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

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

See BEAT, No. 8.

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.

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.

Break, Breaker, Breaking, Brake:

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.