STRONGS NUMBER G2997

A strengthened form of a primary verb, which only occurs in this and another prolonged form as alternate in certain tenses; to crack open (from a fall) -- burst asunder.

STRONGS NT 2997: λάσκωλάσκω: 1 aorist ἐλάκησα; (cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Sprchl. ii., p. 233; Krüger, 2:1, p. 134; Kühner, § 343, i., p. 858; (Veitch, under the word); Winer's Grammar, 88 (84));

1. to crack, crackle, crash: Homer, Hesiod, Tragg., Aristophanes

2. to burst asunder with a crack, crack open: Acts 1:18; ὁ δράκων φυσηθεις (after having sucked up the poison) ἐλάκησε καί ἀπέθανε καί ἐξεχύθη ὁ ἰός αὐτοῦ καί ἡ χολή, Act. Thomae § 33, p. 219, Tdf. edition.