Quick Definition
a ruin
Strong's Definition
something torn, i.e. a fragment (by implication and abstractly, a fall)
Derivation: from G4486 (ῥήγνυμι);
KJV Usage: ruin
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ῤῆγμα, ῥηγματος, τό (ῤήγνυμι), what has been broken or rent asunder;
a. a fracture, breach, cleft: Hippocrates (), Demosthenes, (Aristotle), Polybius, others; for αΘΜχΔιςΗ , Amo_6:11, Alex.;
b. plural for χΐψΘςΔιν, torn clothes: 1Ki_11:30; 2Ki_2:12.
c. fall, ruin: Luk_6:49.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ῥῆγμα rhēgma 1x
a rent; a crash, ruin, Luk_6:49
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ῥῆγμα , -τος , τό
( < ῥήγνυμι ),
[in LXX : 1Ki_11:30-31 ; 1Ki_12:24 , 2Ki_2:12 ( H7168 ), Amo_6:12 (11) A ( H1233 ) * ;]
1. cl . (and so in LXX ), a fracture; then by meton ., that which is torn.
2. In NT, ruin: Luk_6:49 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ῥῆγμα [page 563]
For ῥῆγμα in the sense of breach in the Nile embankments see P Lond 131 recto .45, .60 (A.D. 78 9) (= I. p. 171 f.), and cf. PSI V. 456 .11 (A.D. 276 82) ἐπὶ τοῦ πύργου . . ῥήγματα : cf. Luk_6:49 , and for the medical use of the word = rupture, see Hobart p. 56. The subst. ῥηγμός may be illustrated from ib . IV. 422 .15 (iii/B.C.) ἡ δὲ γῆ ῥηγμῶν πλήρε (=η )ς ἐστὶν διὰ τὸ μήποτε αὐτὴν ἠρόσθαι .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ῥῆγμα ῥῆγμα, ατος, τό, [Etym: ῥήγνυμι] "a breakage, fracture", Dem.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ῥῆγμα, -τος, τό
(ῥήγνυμι), [in LXX: 3Ki.11:30-31 12:24, 4Ki.2:12 (קֶרַע), Amo.6:12 (11) A (בְּקִיעַ) * ;]
__1. cl. (and so in LXX), a fracture; then by meton., that which is torn.
__2. In NT, ruin: Luk.6:49.†
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