καταῥήγνυμι
break down, tear
Where this word appears
Every passage where καταῥήγνυμι appears in the Greek Septuagint — 5 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Joshua 9:4 καταῥήγνυμι And they also wrought craftily, and they went and made provision and prepared themselves; and having taken old sacks on their shoulders, and old and torn and patched bottles of wine,
- Psalms 88:45 καταῥήγνυμι You have shortened the days of his throne: you have poured shame upon him. Pause.
- Psalms 144:14 καταῥήγνυμι The Lord supports all that are falling, and sets up all that are broken down.
- Psalms 145:8 καταῥήγνυμι the Lord gives wisdom to the blind: The Lord sets up the broken down: the Lord loves the righteous: the Lord preserves the strangers;
- Proverbs 27:9 καταῥήγνυμι The heart delights in ointments and wines and perfumes: but the soul is broken by calamities.
About this word
About this word
καταῥήγνυμι (katarhḗgnymi), “break down, tear,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 5 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
