Greek verb · G4682
σπαράσσω
sparassospar-as'-so
to tear, rend, mangle.; to convulse
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sparássō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4682is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4682
apparently strengthened from through the idea of spasmodic contraction); to mangle, i.e. convluse with epilepsy
The King James renders it: rend, tear.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
sparasso is rendered "to tear, rend, mangle.; to convulse". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to tear, rend, mangle.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 1:26At this, the unclean spirit threw the man into convulsions and came out with a loud shriek.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
At this, the unclean spirit threw the man into convulsions and came out with a loud shriek.
Mark 1:26σπαράξαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to tear, rend, mangle., and to convulse.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to tear, rend, mangle. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereMark 1:26At this, the unclean spirit threw the man into convulsions and came out with a loud shriek. |
| to convulseMrk.1:26 (see Swete | Tagged as
| WhereMark 1:26At this, the unclean spirit threw the man into convulsions and came out with a loud shriek. |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σπαργανόω | sparganoo | to wrap | Uses2 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- σπαράξαν1
- σπαράξας1
- σπαράσσει1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-AAP-NSM
- verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1V-AAP-NSN
- verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-PAI-3S
Mark
two uses
At this, the unclean spirit threw the man into convulsions and came out with a loud shriek.
- σπαράξανsparaxanverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: having thrown into convulsions
After shrieking and convulsing him violently, the spirit came out. The boy became like a corpse, so that many said, “He is dead.”
- σπαράξαςsparaxasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: throwing into convulsions
Luke
one use
A spirit keeps seizing him, and he screams abruptly. It throws him into convulsions so that he foams at the mouth. It keeps mauling him and rarely departs from him.
- σπαράσσειsparasseiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: it throws into convulsions
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.