King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G4048
Transliteration: perirrēgnymi
Phonetic Spelling: (per-ir-hrayg'-noo-mee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to tear off all around
Meaning: to tear off all around
περιρρήγνυμι (L T Tr WH περιρήγνυμι, with one rho ῥ; see the preceding word): 1 aorist participle plural περιρρήξαντες; (περί and ῤήγνυμι); to break off on all sides, break off all round (cf. περί, III. 1): τό ἱμάτιον, to rend or tear off all around, Acts 16:22. So of garments also in 2 Macc. 4:38 and often in secular authors; Aeschylus sept. 329; Demosthenes, p. 403, 3; Polybius 15, 33, 4; Diodorus 17, 35.
Word Summary
perirrēgnymi: to tear off all around
Original Word: περιρρήγνυμιTransliteration: perirrēgnymi
Phonetic Spelling: (per-ir-hrayg'-noo-mee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to tear off all around
Meaning: to tear off all around
Strong's Concordance
tear off completelyFrom peri and rhegnumi; to tear all around, i.e. Completely away -- rend off.
see GREEK peri
see GREEK rhegnumi
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4048: περιρρήγνυμιπεριρρήγνυμι (L T Tr WH περιρήγνυμι, with one rho ῥ; see the preceding word): 1 aorist participle plural περιρρήξαντες; (περί and ῤήγνυμι); to break off on all sides, break off all round (cf. περί, III. 1): τό ἱμάτιον, to rend or tear off all around, Acts 16:22. So of garments also in 2 Macc. 4:38 and often in secular authors; Aeschylus sept. 329; Demosthenes, p. 403, 3; Polybius 15, 33, 4; Diodorus 17, 35.