noun · neuter
rēgmem
Strong’sG4485
a ruin
stem rēgm-once in the New Testament1 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ῥῆγμα, -τος, τό
(< ῥήγνυμι), [in LXX: III Ki 11:30, 31 12:24, IV Ki 2:12 (קְרָעִים), Am 6:12 (11) A (בְּקִיעַ) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4485 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhrayg'-mah
something torn, i.e. a fragment (by implication and abstractly, a fall)
Fromfrom G4486;
King Jamesruin.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(ῥήγνυμι) breakage, fracture, joined with σπάσμα, Refs 5th c.BC+; with στρέμμα (a strain), Refs 4th c.BC+
2 laceration, rupture, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 rent, tear, in clothes, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 cleft, chasm, ῥ. τῆς γῆς Refs 4th c.BC+; chink, ἐν τοίχοις Refs 2nd c.BC+; breach in a dyke, Refs 1st c.AD+
II lesion or rupture of tissue, ὅταν ὑπὸ βίης διαστέωσιν αἱ σάρκες ἀπ᾽ ἀλλήλων Refs 5th c.BC+:hence ῥηγμᾰτίας, ου, ὁ, one who has such a rupture, Refs 1st c.AD+; but ῥηγματίας πλεύμονος perhaps = pleurisy, Refs 5th c.BC+; ῥηγμᾰτώδης, ες, Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | rēgmem1×ῥῆγμα | rēgmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | rēgmeu | rēgmeiu |
| to, for dative | rēgme | rēgmei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
rēgme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
rēgmem“ruin”subject or objectdirect singular1×
Luke 6:49“ruin”… kai euthuos sumpiptata, kai geneta tem rēgmem tau oikiau ekeinau megem.… crashed against that house, and immediately it fell — and great was its destruction!”