Lexical Summary
perirégnumi: To tear off, to rend, to break apart
Original Word: περιρήγνυμι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: perirégnumi
Pronunciation: pe-ree-RAYG-noo-mee
Phonetic Spelling: (per-ir-hrayg'-noo-mee)
KJV: rend off
NASB: tore off
Word Origin: [from G4012 (περί - about) and G4486 (ῥήγνυμι - burst)]
1. to tear all around, i.e. completely away
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
tear off completely
From peri and rhegnumi; to tear all around, i.e. Completely away -- rend off.
see GREEK peri
see GREEK rhegnumi
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
peri and
rhégnumiDefinitionto tear off all around
NASB Translationtore...off (1).
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.
