Word Summary
prosrēgnymi: to break against
Original Word: προσρήγνυμιTransliteration: prosrēgnymi
Phonetic Spelling: (pros-rayg'-noo-mee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to break against
Meaning: to break against
Strong's Concordance
beat vehemently against
From pros and rhegnumi; to tear towards, i.e. Burst upon (as a tempest or flood) -- beat vehemently against (upon).
see GREEK pros
see GREEK rhegnumi
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4366: προσρηγγνυμιπροσρηγγνυμι, and in later writings (
Winer's Grammar, 22)
προσρήσσω; 1 aorist
προσέρρηξα R G L,
προσερηξα T Tr WH (see Rho);
to break against, break by dashing against:
παιδία ἀπολεῖς προσρηγνυς πέτραις,
Josephus, Antiquities 9, 4, 6;
λέοντα προσρηξας τῇ γῆ, 6, 9, 3; intransitive, (cf.
Winers Grammar, § 38, 1; (
Buttmann, § 130, 4)):
ὁ ποταμός τῇ οἰκία,
Luke 6:48 (49;
Matthew 7:27 L marginal reading): in the passive,
τῇ ἄκρα ἡ τά κύματα προσρήσσεται,
Antoninus 4, 49.