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• ܒ݁ܥܰܩ
• ܨܪܳܐ
• διαρήγνυμι , διαρήσσω , διαρρήγνυμι
• περιρήγνυμι
• ῥάσσω , ῥήγνυμι , ῥήσσω
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• בָּקַע
• פָּרַם
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REND, pret. and pp. rent. Eng. cranny, L. crena, Gr.

1. To separate any substance into parts with force or sudden violence to tear asunder to split as, powder rends a rock in blasting lightning rends an oak.

An empire from its old foundation rent.

I rend my tresses, and by breast I wound.

Neither rend your clothes, lest ye die. Leviticus 10 .

2. To separate or part with violence.

I will surely rend the kingdom from thee. 1 Kings 11 .

To rend the heart, in Scripture, to have bitter sorrow for sin. Joel 2 .

To rend the heavens, to appear in majesty. Isaiah 64 .

Rend differs somewhat from lacerate. We never say, to lacerate a rock or a kingdom, when we mean to express splitting or division. Lacerate is properly applicable to the tearing off of small pieces of a thing, as to lacerate the body with a whip or scourge or to the tearing of the flesh or other thing without entire separation.