Word Summary
brygmos: a biting, a gnashing of teeth
Original Word: βρυγμόςTransliteration: brygmos
Phonetic Spelling: (broog-mos')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a biting, a gnashing of teeth
Meaning: a biting, a gnashing of teeth
Strong's Concordance
gnashing.
From brucho; a grating (of the teeth) -- gnashing.
see GREEK brucho
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1030: βρυγμόςβρυγμός,
βρυγμου,
ὁ (
βρύχω, which see),
a gnashing of teeth: with
τῶν ὀδόντων added, a phrase denoting the extreme anguish and utter despair of men consigned to eternal condemnation,
Matthew 8:12;
Matthew 13:42, 50;
Matthew 22:13;
Matthew 24:51;
Matthew 25:30;
Luke 13:28. (In Sir. 51:3
βρυγμός is attributed to beasts, which gnash the teeth as they attack their prey; in
Proverbs 19:12 the
Sept. for
נַהַם snarling, growling; in the sense of
biting, Nic. th. 716, to be derived from
βρύκω to bite; cf. Fritzsche on Sirach, as above, p. 308.)