Schizo means “break” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4977 — mattan in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4977 σχίζω (schizo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. schizo (skhid'-zo) v. 1. to split or sever {literally or figuratively} It has 21 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include rent, opened, and rend. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
schizo (skhid'-zo) v. 1. to split or sever {literally or figuratively} [apparently a primary verb] KJV: break, divide, open, rend, make a rent
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4977. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to split
Usage: σχίζω [in LXX chiefly for בָּקַע ;] to cleave, rend: Mat.27:51, Mrk.1:10 15:38, Luk.5:36 23:45, Jhn.19:24 21:11; metaphorically, in pass., to be divided into factions, Act.14:4 23:7.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render schizo, 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 New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old 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 G4977 (σχίζω) appears 11 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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9 indexed usages in New Testament.
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
8 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Abraham rose up in the morning and saddled his ass, and he took with him two servants, and Isaac his son, and having split wood for a whole burnt offering, he arose and departed, and came to the place of which God spoke to him,
And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the Lord carried back the sea with a strong south wind all the night, and made the sea dry, and the water was divided.
And the wagon entered into the field of Joshua, which was in Beth-shemesh, and they set there by it a great stone; and they split the wood of the wagon, and offered up the cows for a whole burnt offering to the Lord.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
wherefore he ran upon him courageously through the midst of the battle, slaying on the right hand and on the left, so that they were divided from him on both sides.
Or as when a bird hath flown through the air, There is no token of her way to be found, But the light air being beaten with the stroke of her wings, And parted with the violent noise and motion of them, Is passed through, and therein afterward no sign where she went is to be found;
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4977.
And Abraham rose up in the morning and saddled his ass, and he took with him two servants, and Isaac his son, and having split wood for a whole burnt offering, he arose and departed, and came to the place of which God spoke to him,
And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the Lord carried back the sea with a strong south wind all the night, and made the sea dry, and the water was divided.
And the wagon entered into the field of Joshua, which was in Beth-shemesh, and they set there by it a great stone; and they split the wood of the wagon, and offered up the cows for a whole burnt offering to the Lord.
He that removes stones shall be troubled thereby; He that cleaves wood shall be endangered thereby.
And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, the steward, and Shebna the military scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came in to Hezekiah, having their garments rent, and they reported to him the words of Rabshakeh.
And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth, and went up to the house of the Lord.
And if they shall thirst, he shall lead them through the desert; he shall bring forth water to them out of the rock: the rock shall be cloven, and the water shall flow forth, and my people shall drink.
And his feet shall stand in that day on the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave asunder, half of it toward the east and the west, a very great division; and half the mountain shall lean to the north, and half of it to the south.
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
But the multitude of the city was divided: and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
wherefore he ran upon him courageously through the midst of the battle, slaying on the right hand and on the left, so that they were divided from him on both sides.
Or as when a bird hath flown through the air, There is no token of her way to be found, But the light air being beaten with the stroke of her wings, And parted with the violent noise and motion of them, Is passed through, and therein afterward no sign where she went is to be found;
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Schizo (Strong's G4977) is a Greek word most simply glossed "break". schizo (skhid'-zo) v. 1. to split or sever {literally or figuratively}
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's G4977 across 15 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4977 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 rent, opened, and rend. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 8 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4977, with linked reader references where each row is available.