Bible word study

Rhegnymi (Strong’s G4486): Meaning in the Bible

Rhegnymi (ῥήγνυμι) is the Greek word numbered G4486 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to "break," "wreck" or "crack", i.e. (especially) to sunder (by separation of the parts; G2608 being its intensive (with the preposition in composition), and G2352 a shattering to minute fragments; but not a reduction to the constituent particles, like G3089) or disrupt, lacerate; by implication, to convulse (with spasms); figuratively, to give vent to joyful emotions. In the King James Bible it is translated break (forth), burst, rend, tear..

• Original wordῥήγνυμι
• Transliterationrhḗgnymi
• Pronunciationhrayg'-noo-mee
• Strong’s numberG4486
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. both prolonged forms of (which appears only in certain forms, and is itself probably a strengthened form of (see in G2608));

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Rhegnymi appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Rhegnymi (G4486) stands behind 8 English renderings in 7 verses across 4 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Luke (3), Matthew (2), Mark (2).

How the King James Bible renders Rhegnymi, by count

• break1 of 8 (12 percent)
• doth burst1 of 8 (12 percent)
• down1 of 8 (12 percent)
• forth1 of 8 (12 percent)
• rend1 of 8 (12 percent)
• teareth1 of 8 (12 percent)

Three places to read Rhegnymi

• Matthew 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
• Mark 2:22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.
• Luke 5:37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.

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Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Rhegnymi in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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