Lexicon
ῥήγνυμι
rhēgnumi
G4486
G:V Greek

to throw violently

7
Occurrences
4
Books
Greek
Language

rhegnumi describes bursting wineskins, violently throwing someone down, or breaking forth and tearing apart in its attested clauses.

The most common attested use concerns wineskins that burst when new wine is put into old ones; other occurrences describe a person being thrown down violently and actions expressed as breaking forth or tearing apart.

Senses in use

  1. Bursting wineskins · dominant

    In Luke 5:37 and Mark 2:22, the future active singular form occurs in the warning that new wine will burst old wineskins. In Matthew 9:17, the present passive plural form stands in the corresponding result clause, where the APB renders that the wineskins “burst.”

  2. Violently throwing a person down · occasional

    In Luke 9:42, the aorist active singular form occurs as the demon throws the child down while he approaches. In Mark 9:18, the present active singular form occurs in the description of what happens wherever the spirit seizes him; the APB renders “it throws him down violently.”

  3. Breaking forth or tearing apart · occasional

    In Galatians 4:27, the second-person aorist active singular form occurs in the call to “break forth and cry aloud.” In Matthew 7:6, the aorist active plural subjunctive form occurs in the warning that pigs may turn and “tear you to pieces.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB presents the term with “burst,” “threw him down,” “throws him down violently,” “break forth,” and “tear you to pieces.” These are renderings of whole clauses in a translation rather than word-by-word alignments.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture