Words the Bible translates as tear
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 12 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- qaraקָרַעto tear: to rip something apart, most often clothing torn as an outburst of grief or shock
- dakru, dakruonδάκρυ, δάκρυονa tear: the drop that falls from a weeping eye, and so, in the plural, weeping made visible.
- rhēgnumiῥήγνυμιto burst or rip apart: to make something come to pieces under sheer force
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- to break forth: to let a cry burst out of someone who has been silent
- to hurl a person violently to the ground
- natatsנָתַץto tear down: to demolish something built, reducing a structure to rubble
- nataqנָתַקto pull something apart by force: to snap what binds, drag a person away, or wrench a thing loose
- taraphטָרַףto tear apart and kill, the way a lion or wolf seizes prey and rips it to pieces
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- to provide someone with food, giving them the portion they need to eat
- schizōσχίζωto tear or split something apart, breaking a whole thing into pieces.
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- to be split into opposing groups, divided in opinion.
- paraqפָּרַקto tear off or pull apart by force: to wrench something loose from what holds it
- diarrēgnumiδιαρρήγνυμιto tearnot studied yet
- schismaσχίσμαa split: the gap left where something that used to be one piece has come apart, whether a torn garment or a divided group of people.
- paramפָּרַםto tearnot studied yet
- pashaḥפָּשַׁחto tearnot studied yet
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