Lexicon schizó: to cleave, split Original Word: σχίζωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: schizó Phonetic Spelling: (skhid'-zo) Short Definition: I rend, divide asunder Definition: I rend, divide asunder, cleave. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom a prim. root schid- Definitionto cleave, split NASB Translationdivided (2), opening (1), split (1), tear (2), tears (1), torn (4).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4977: σχίζωσχίζω (( Luke 5:36 R G L marginal reading)); future ( σχίσω ( Luke 5:36 L text T Tr text WH (cf. Buttmann, 37 (32f))); 1 aorist ἐσχισα; passive, present participle σχιζόμενος; 1 aorist ἐσχίσθην; (allied with Latin scindo, caedo, etc. (cf. Curtius, § 295)); from (( Homer h. Merc.)) Hesiod down; the Sept. several times for בָּקַע , Isaiah 37:1 for קָרַע ; to cleave, cleave asunder, rend: τί, Luke 5:36; passive, αἱ πέτραι, Matthew 27:51; οἱ οὐρανοί, Mark 1:10; τό καταπέτασμα, Luke 23:45; with εἰς δύο added, into two parts, in twain (( εἰς δύο μέρη, of a river, Polybius 2, 16, 11)), Matthew 27:51; Mark 15:38; τό δίκτυον, John 21:11; to divide by rending, τί, John 19:24. tropically, in the passive, to be split into factions, be divided: Acts 14:4; Acts 23:7, ( Xenophon, conv. 4, 59; τοῦ πλήθους σχιζομενου κατά αἵρεσιν, Diodorus 12, 66).
Strong's split, divide, rend Apparently a primary verb; to split or sever (literally or figuratively) -- break, divide, open, rend, make a rent. |
