noun · neuter

rēgmem

Greekῥῆγμα (rēgma)

Strong’sG4485

a ruin

stem rēgm-once in the New Testament1 of 6 forms occur

Translated as

ruin1×

What it means

ῥῆγμα, -τος, τό

(< ῥήγνυμι), [in LXX: III Ki 11:30, 31 12:24, IV Ki 2:12 (קְרָעִים), Am 6:12 (11) A (בְּקִיעַ) *;]

1. cl. (and so in LXX), a fracture; then by meton., that which is torn.

2. In NT, ruin: Lk 6:49.†

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.

Every form

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

rēgmstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

rēgmem“ruin”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Luke 6:49“ruin”tos de akouaratos kai mē poiaratos homoios atō anthrōpo oikodomarato oikian epi tan gēan chōris themeliou, ha prosrēgnuata tos potamos, kai euthuos sumpiptata, kai gineta tem rēgmem tau oikiau ekeinau megem.But the one who hears My words and does not act on them is like a man who built his house on ground without a foundation. The torrent crashed against that house, and immediately it fell — and great was its destruction!”