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Strong's #4977 - σχίζω
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- to cleave, cleave asunder, rend
- to divide by rending
- to split into factions, be divided
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σχίζω,
Hdt. 2.17, S. El. 99 (anap.), etc.: poet. impf. σχίζον Pi. P. 4.228: fut. σχίσω LXX Su. 55: aor. ἔσχισα Od. 4.507 (ἀπο-), h.Merc. 128, etc., σχίσσα Hes. Sc. 428: — Pass., fut. σχισθήσομαι LXX Zechariah 14:4 : pf. ἔσχισμαι (v. infr.): —
split, cleave, ῥινὸν ὀνύχεσσι Hes. l.c.; ἔσχισε δώδεκα μοίρας, i.e. divided them into twelve parts, h.Merc. l.c.; ς. νῶτον γᾶς, of the plough, Pi. l.c.; σχίσσαις κεραυνῷ Ζεὺς χθόνα Id. N. 9.24; ποδὶ γᾶν Id. Fr. 167; κάρα πελέκει S. l.c.; esp. of wood, X. An. 1.5.12, etc.; of the wind, ς. περὶ πρῷραν τὰ κύματα Simon. 25 (dub.); but πρῷρα ς. τὸ κῦμα Luc. Amos 6:1-14; [ θάλασσα] σχιζομένη ταῖς κώπαις Placit. 3.3.2; ἔσχισε νῆα θάλασσα shattered it, AP 9.40 (Zos.); ς. ὑποδήματα cut out, opp. νευρορραφεῖν, X. Cyr. 8.2.5 (cf. πρόσχισμα); tear, ἱμάτιον Gloss.; τριβώνιον ἐσχισμένον BGU 928.20, 22 (iii A.D.); οἱ ἀποθανόντες ἐσχισμένοις ἐνειλοῦνται ῥάκεσιν ὡς καὶ τὰ βρέφη Artem. 1.13.
2. generally, part, separate, divide, Νεῖλος μέσην Αἴγυπτον σχίζων Hdt.l.c., cf. 4.49; ς. διχῇ τὸ γένος Pl. Sph. 264d; κατὰ μῆκος Id. Ti. 36b; ς. τὰς φλέβας divide them, ib. 77d: — Pass., σχισθέντα A. Ag. 623; φλὲψ σχιζομένη Hp. Art. 20; ἐσχίσθη ὁ ποταμός Hdt. 1.75; Νεῖλος σχίζεται τριφασίας ὁδούς branches into three channels, Id. 2.17, cf. 15 (so ὁ λύχνος ἔσχισται διδύμην φλόγα AP 12.199 (Strat.)); περὶ ὃ σχίζεται τὸ τοῦ Νείλου ῥεῦμα Pl. Ti. 21e; σχιζομένης τῆς ὁδοῦ Hdt. 7.31; ἡ στρατιὴ ἐσχίζετο the army divided, Id. 8.34; of a bird's wings (cf. σχιζόπτερος), Arist. PA 642b28; of feet divided into toes (cf. σχιζόπους), Id. HA 494a12; and of various parts of the body, ib. 495b4, 507a13; branch off, ἀπὸ [τοῦ στελέχους ] Thphr. HP 1.1.9; φύλλα ἐσχισμένα εἰς έ μοίρας Dsc. 4.41.
3. σχίζειν γάλα make milk curdle, i. e. separate the whey from the curds, Id. 2.70; cf. σχίσις 2.
II metaph. of divided opinions, σφεων ἐσχίζοντο αἱ γνῶμαι Hdt. 7.219, cf. X. Smp. 4.59; ἐσχίσθησαν ταῖς γνώμαις Gal. 16.728. (Cf. Lat. scindo, Goth. skaidan 'separate', etc.)
σχίζω ((Luke 5:36 R G L marginal reading)); future (σχίσω (Luke 5:36 L text T Tr text WH (cf. Buttmann, 37 (32f))); 1 aorist ἐσχισα; passive, present participle σχιζόμενος; 1 aorist ἐσχίσθην; (allied with Latinscindo, caedo, etc. (cf. Curtius, § 295)); from ((Homer h. Merc.)) Hesiod down; the Sept. several times for בָּקַע , Isaiah 37:1 for קָרַע ; to cleave, cleave asunder, rend: τί, Luke 5:36; passive, αἱ πέτραι, Matthew 27:51; οἱ οὐρανοί, Mark 1:10; τό καταπέτασμα, Luke 23:45; with εἰς δύο added, into two parts, in twain ((εἰς δύο μέρη, of a river, Polybius 2, 16, 11)), Matthew 27:51; Mark 15:38; τό δίκτυον, John 21:11; to divide by rending, τί, John 19:24. tropically, in the passive, to be split into factions, be divided: Acts 14:4; Acts 23:7, (Xenophon, conv. 4, 59; τοῦ πλήθους σχιζομενου κατά αἵρεσιν, Diodorus 12, 66).
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σχίζω ,
[in LXX chiefly for H1234;]
to cleave, rend: Matthew 27:51, Mark 1:10; Mark 15:38, Luke 5:36; Luke 23:45, John 19:24; John 21:11; metaph., in pass., to be divided into factions, Acts 14:4; Acts 23:7.†
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This rare word = ";cover with ashes"; or ";reduce to ashes"; is found in the NT only in 2 Peter 2:6. Commentators cite Dio Cass. lxvi. p. 1094 τῶν ἐν μέσῳ κραυρουμένων (";being parched";) καὶ τεφρουμένων (";being overwhelmed with ashes";)—a description of an eruption of Vesuvius, and Lycophron Cass. 227 τεφρώσας γυῖα Λημναίῳ πυρί.
The adj. τεφρός, ";ash-coloured,"; is used of a bird in PSI VI. 569.6 (B.C. 253–2) ἄλλος (sc. ὄρνις) ἄρσην τεφρὸς ὀξυ [ωπής, cited by Preisigke Wörterb. s.v.
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