katagnumi describes breaking a physical object or body part, including legs and a reed.

The attested use concerns physically breaking: legs are requested to be broken, then broken or left unbroken in John 19:31, John 19:32, and John 19:33, while Matthew 12:20 states that a broken reed will not be broken.

1. Physical breaking of legs or a reed · dominant

   In John 19:31, the aorist passive subjunctive form occurs in the request that the legs “might be broken”; John 19:32 reports that the soldiers broke the legs, while John 19:33 says they did not break Jesus' legs. In Matthew 12:20, the future active form occurs in the statement that a broken reed “he will not break.”

   John 19:31John 19:32John 19:33Matthew 12:20

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the action with “broken,” “broke,” and “break” in the cited clauses. These renderings confirm the verses' physical-breaking context rather than establish separate lexical senses.