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Strong's #4485 - ῥῆγμα
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ῥῆγ-μα, ατος, τό, ( ῥήγνυμι ) breakage, fracture, joined with σπάσμα, Hp. Aër. 4, cf. D. 18.198, Dsc. 3.74; with στρέμμα (a strain), D. 2.21, 11.14 .
2. laceration, rupture, Gal. 10.160, 18(2).882, cf. Arist. HA 635a4 .
3. rent, tear, in clothes, Archipp. 38 .
4. cleft, chasm, ῥ. τῆς γῆς Arist. HA 628b29; chink, ἐν τοίχοις Plb. 13.6.8; breach in a dyke, PLond. 1.131r . 45, 60 (i A.D.) .
II lesion or rupture of tissue, ὅταν ὑπὸ βίης διαστέωσιν αἱ σάρκες ἀπ' ἀλλήλων Hp. Flat. 11, cf. Gal. 1.238, 10.232; esp. oflung, Hp. Loc.Hom. 14, Morb. 1.20:hence ῥηγμᾰτίας, ου, ὁ, one who has such a rupture, Id. Aër. 4, Dsc. 3.146, 4.10; τοὺς ἐκ βηχὸς ῥηγματίας Hippiatr. 22; but ῥηγματίας πλεύμονος perh. = pleurisy, Hp. Morb. 2.53; ῥηγμᾰτώδης, ες, Id. Epid. 7.26 .
ῥῆγμα , -τος , τό
(< ῥήγνυμι ),
[in LXX: 1 Kings 11:30-31; 1 Kings 12:24, 2 Kings 2:12 (H7168), Amos 6:12 (11) A (H1233) *;]
1. cl. (and so in LXX), a fracture; then by meton., that which is torn.
2. In NT, ruin: Luke 6:49.†
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frequent in the LXX but in the NT confined to Revelation 18:13 = ";fine wheaten flour"; (cf. Pliny HN xiii. 21 ";similago ex tritico fit laudatissimo’) : cf. P Oxy IV. 736.82 (c. A.D. 1) σεμιδάρεως (l. σεμιδάλεως) ξηρᾶς (ἡμιωβέλιον), BGU IV. 1067.15 (A.D. 102) σεμιδάλεω (ς) ἀρτάβας τρεῖ [ς, and P Lond 190.45 (list of provisions—iii/A.D. ?) (= II. p. 255) σ [εμί ]δαλιν. For σεμιδαλίτης ἄρτος, ";fine wheaten bread,"; see P Petr III. 61 (g).6 (iii/B.C.). Apparently σεμίδαλις, with Lat. simila of the same meaning, is borrowed from some Mediterranean tongue (Boisacq p. 859).
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