04486

@LINK ῥήγνυμι

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4486. ῥήγνυμι I. to break, break asunder or in pieces, rend, shiver, shatter, Hom., etc.:—to rend garments, in sign of grief, Aesch.:—Mid. to break for oneself, get broken, Il.
2. to break a line of battle or body of men, id=Il., Hdt.; in Mid., ῥήξασθαι φάλαγγας, στίχας to break oneself a way through the lines, Il.; absol., ῥήξασθαι to break or force one's way, id=Il.
3. to let break loose, let loose, id=Il.
4. ῥῆξαι φωνήν to let loose the voice, of children and persons who have been dumb breaking into speech, Hdt.: then to speak freely, speak out (like rumpere vocem, Virgil), id=Hdt., Ar., etc.
5. δακρύων ῥήξασα νάματα having let loose floods of tears, Soph.; so, ῥ. κλαυθμόν Plut.
II. absol. in the form ῥήσσω, to beat the ground, dance, Il.
III. later, as a term of fighters, to fell, knock down, Dem.
B. Pass., mostly used in aor2 ἐρράγην [α], to break, burst, of waves, Il.; of clouds, Ar.
2. to break asunder, be rent, of the earth in an earthquake, Plat.; of garments, Xen.
3. to burst forth, like lightning, Ar.
4. of ships, to be wrecked, Dem.: metaph. of hopes, Aesch.
C. intr., like Pass., to break forth, of a river, to break its bounds, Hdt.:—metaph. of sudden misfortunes, bursts of passion, Soph.
II. in this intr. sense the perf. ἔρρωγα is commonly used of tears, id=Soph.; metaph., κακῶν πέλαγος ἔρρωγεν Aesch., etc.

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4486. ῥήγσσω ῥήγνυμι rJhvgssw rJhvgnumi rhegnumi {hrayg'-noo-mee} 或 rhesso {hrace'-so}
rhesso hrace'-so

both prolonged forms of rheko (which appears only in certain forms, and is itself probably a strengthened form of agnumi (see in 2608)) to "break," "wreck" or "crack", i.e. (especially) to sunder (by separation of the parts; 2608 being its intensive (with the preposition in composition), and 2352 a shattering to minute fragments; but not a reduction to the constituent particles, like 3089) or disrupt, lacerate; by implication, to convulse (with spasms); figuratively, to give vent to joyful emotions:--break (forth), burst, rend, tear. see GREEK for 2608 see GREEK for 2608 see GREEK for 2352 see GREEK for 3089

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4486 manda` man-dah'

(Aramaic) corresponding to 4093; wisdom or
intelligence:--knowledge, reason, understanding.
see HEBREW for 04093