προσρήγνυμι
to break against
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4366 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 2 verses
- Luke 6:48 προσέρηξεν aor act ind 3sg He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.
- Luke 6:49 προσέρηξεν aor act ind 3sg But he who hears, and doesn't do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great."
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, προσρηγνυμι (prosrḗgnymi) means “to break against.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. The word gravitates to Luke (100%). It first appears in Luke 6:48. It clusters with προς, προσαγορευω and προσαγω under a shared root. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4366 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 2 verses 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Against 1×, Beat vehemently 1×, Did beat vehemently 1×
- American Standard Version: Brake 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Crashed against 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Flowed 1×, Flowed against 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4366 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4366 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4366 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4366 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to break against, break by dashing against
Word origin
Derived from προς (prós) (G4314).
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4366, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- προσαγορευω prosagoreúō G4316 to address
- προσαγω proságō G4317 to bring
- προσαιτεω prosaitéō G4319 to ask alms
- προσαναβαινω prosanabaínō G4320 to go up higher
- προσαναλισκω prosanalískō G4321 to spend additionally
- προσαναπληροω prosanaplēróō G4322 to fill up
- προσανατιθημι prosanatíthēmi G4323 to lay upon
- προσαπειλεω prosapeiléō G4324 to threaten further
- προσδαπαναω prosdapanáō G4325 to spend besides
- προσδεομαι prosdéomai G4326 to need additionally
- προσδεχομαι prosdéchomai G4327 to receive to oneself
- προσδοκαω prosdokáō G4328 to expect
- προσεαω proseáō G4330 to permit approach
- προσεγγιζω prosengízō G4331 to approach
- προσεδρευω prosedreúō G4332 to sit near
- προσεργαζομαι prosergázomai G4333 to work besides
- προσερχομαι prosérchomai G4334 to draw near
- προσευχομαι proseúchomai G4336 to pray
- προσεχω proséchō G4337 to attend to
- προσηλοω prosēlóō G4338 to nail to
- προσκαιρος próskairos G4340 temporary
- προσκαλεομαι proskaléomai G4341 to call to
- προσκαρτερεω proskarteréō G4342 to adhere to
- προσκεφαλαιον proskephálaion G4344 pillow
+27 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 53 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
