ῥήγνυμι

• ῥηγνύω (rhēgnúō), ῥήσσω (rhḗssō), ῥήττω (rhḗttō)

Uncertain. Probably from Proto-Indo-European *wreh₁ǵ-; compare Old Armenian երգիծանեմ (ergicanem, “I tear, dissect”), Lithuanian rėžti, and Old Church Slavonic рѣзати (rězati, “to cut, slaughter”).^[1] Also compare Latin frangō and Old English brecan (English break), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-. Further compare Sanskrit रुजति (rujati, “break up, break open, shatter”) and Albanian rrege.

ῥήγνῡμῐ • (rhḗgnūmi)

1. (transitive) to break asunder, tear, rend, shatter
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 199
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 468
   • 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 515
   • 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 1130
   • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 994
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Ancient Medicine 19
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 12.440
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.124
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.165
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 12.409
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 17.1
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Parasite: Parasitic an Art 46
   • 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 7:6
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 8.29
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 15.1.57
   1. to break through a line or body of men
      • 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 835
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.113
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.6
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.90
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.615
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 210.9
   2. (post-Homeric) to break into speech, speak out
      • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 357
      • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 960
      • 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 710
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.85
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.2
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.93
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Isaiah 54.1
   3. to burst into tears
      • 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Imagines 2.27
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Gaius Marius 19
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pericles 36
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Isaiah 49.13
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 919
2. (passive voice) to break, burst
   • 117 CE – 181 CE, Aelius Aristides, Orations 50.69
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 378
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 377
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Injuries of the Head 4
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.425
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.67
   • 314 CE – 393 CE, Libanius, Orations 1.207
   • 314 CE – 393 CE, Libanius, Orations 29.13
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 359d
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 958
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 7.3.18
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.6.16
   1. to burst forth
      • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 583
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 582b.10
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 5.32
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Nat. Mul. 13
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.919b
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 578
   2. (of ships) to be wrecked
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 505
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Dionysodorus 21
   3. to be inscribed on
3. (intransitive) to break, burst forth
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 433
   • 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 1338
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.99
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Epidemics 4.24
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On the Nature of the Child 12
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1076
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1280
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 852
   • Comica Adespota 661

• “ῥήγνυμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ῥήγνυμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ῥήγνυμι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ῥήγνυμι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ῥήγνυμι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ῥήγνυμι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4486 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible