Rhegnymi means “burst” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4486 — manda (“knowledge”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4486 ῥήγνυμι (rhegnumi) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. rhegnumi (rhayg'-noo-mee) (or rhesso rhace'-so) v. 1. to "break," "wreck" or "crack" 2. (especially) to sunder (by separation of the parts) or disrupt, lacerate It has 43 linked Bible usages across 21 books. Visible English usage signals include break. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
rhegnumi (rhayg'-noo-mee) (or rhesso rhace'-so) v. 1. to "break," "wreck" or "crack" 2. (especially) to sunder (by separation of the parts) or disrupt, lacerate 3. (by implication) to convulse (with spasms) 4.
(figuratively) to give vent to joyful emotions {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} [prolonged forms of rheko (which appears only in certain forms, and is itself probably a strengthened form of agnumi (see in G2608))] KJV: break (forth), burst, rend, tear Compare: G2352, G3089 See also: G2608
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4486. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to throw violently
Usage: ῥήγνυμι and (Mrk.9:18) ῥήσσω, [in LXX chiefly for בָּקַע, also for קָרַע, etc. ;] __1. to rend, break asunder: Mat.7:6, Mrk.2:22, Luk.5:37; pass., Mat.9:17. __2. Of the voice, with accusative, φωνήν, etc. (Hdt., al.), to break forth into speech: absol., Gal.4:27 (LXX). __3. = ῥήσσω (Dem., al.), to throw or dash down: Mrk.9:18, Luk.9:42 (cf. δια-, περι-, προσ-ρήγνυμι).† SYN.: θραύω, κατάγνυμι (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render rhegnumi, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4486 (ῥήγνυμι) appears 36 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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7 indexed usages in New Testament.
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.
Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
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.
34 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.
And do thou lift up thy rod, and stretch forth thy hand over the sea, and divide it, and let the children of Israel enter into the midst of the sea on the dry land.
And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
For he shall rend them, and cast them down headlong, that they shall be speechless; And he shall shake them from the foundation; And they shall be utterly laid waste, And be in sorrow; And their memorial shall perish.
If thou hast heard a word, let it die with thee; And be bold, it will not burst thee.
First 43 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4486.
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the abyss were broken up, and the floodgates of heaven were opened.
And do thou lift up thy rod, and stretch forth thy hand over the sea, and divide it, and let the children of Israel enter into the midst of the sea on the dry land.
And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.
And when he ceased speaking all these words, the ground clove asunder beneath them.
are the skins of wine which we filled when new, and they are rent; and our garments and our shoes are worn out because of the very long journey.
And God broke open a hollow place in the jaw, and there came thence water, and he drank; and his spirit returned and he revived: therefore the name of the fountain was called, The well of the invoker, which is in Lehi, until this day.
And all the people went up after him, and they danced in choirs, and rejoiced with great joy, and the earth quaked with their voice.
and he said to Jeroboam, Take to thyself ten pieces, for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give thee ten tribes.
And in that day one shall give a sign, saying, This is the word which the Lord has spoken, saying, Behold, the altar is rent, and the fatness upon it shall be poured out.
And the altar was rent, and the fatness was poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God gave by the word of the Lord.
And the city was broken up, and all the men of war went forth by night, by the way of the gate between the walls, this is the gate of the king’s garden: and the Chaldeans were set against the city round about: and the king went by the way of the plain.
And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
And they cried with a loud voice, and wept, And rent every one his garment, And sprinkled dust upon their heads,
What then? will the wild ass bray for nothing, if he is not seeking food? Or again, will the ox low at the manger, when he has fodder?
That thou hast vented thy rage before the Lord, And delivered such words from thy mouth?
My days have passed in groaning, And my heartstrings are broken.
Binding water in his clouds, And the cloud is not rent under it.
And he has interrupted the whirlpools of rivers, And mine eye has seen every precious thing.
And if not, tearing it up I would return it, Having taken nothing from the debtor.
And my belly is as a skin of sweet wine bound up and ready to burst; Or as a brazier’s laboring bellows.
And the clouds dropped water.
A time to rend, and a time to sew; A time to be silent, and a time to speak;
They shall not hunger nor be weary, neither shall they slumber nor sleep; neither shall they loose their girdles from their loins, neither shall their shoe latchets be broken.
Thy cords are broken, for they had no strength: thy mast has given way, it shall not spread the sails, it shall not bear a signal, until it be given up for plunder; therefore shall many lame men take spoil.
Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall speak plainly; for water has burst forth in the desert, and a channel of water in a thirsty land.
Rejoice, ye heavens; and let the earth be glad: let the mountains break forth with joy; for the Lord has had mercy on his people, and has comforted the lowly ones of his people.
Let the waste places of Jerusalem break forth in joy together, because the Lord has had mercy upon her, and has delivered Jerusalem.
Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that dost not travail: for more are the children of the desolate than of her that has a husband: for the Lord has said,
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall speedily spring forth: and thy righteousness shall go before thee, and the glory of God shall compass thee.
They have hatched asps’ eggs, and weave a spider’s web: and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.
And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
Say to them that plaster it, It shall fall; and there shall be a flooding rain; and I will send great stones upon their joinings, and they shall fall; and there shall be a sweeping wind, and it shall be broken.
and the fish of the sea shall quake at the presence of the Lord, and the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the field, and all the reptiles that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are on the face of the earth; and the mountains shall be rent, and the valleys shall fall, and every wall on the land shall fall.
Surely thou didst bend thy bow At scepters, saith the Lord. Pause. The land of rivers shall be torn asunder.
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.
Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
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.
And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
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.
And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.
For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
For he shall rend them, and cast them down headlong, that they shall be speechless; And he shall shake them from the foundation; And they shall be utterly laid waste, And be in sorrow; And their memorial shall perish.
If thou hast heard a word, let it die with thee; And be bold, it will not burst thee.
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Rhegnymi (Strong's G4486) is a Greek word most simply glossed "burst". rhegnumi (rhayg'-noo-mee) (or rhesso rhace'-so) v. 1. to "break," "wreck" or "crack" 2. (especially) to sunder (by separation of the parts) or disrupt, lacerate
This page currently indexes 43 linked usages for Strong's G4486 across 21 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4486 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as break. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 34 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4486, with linked reader references where each row is available.