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Lexical Definition
Strong's Greek G4486
to "break," "wreck" or "crack", i.e. (especially) to sunder (by separation of the parts; being its intensive (with the preposition in composition), and a shattering to minute fragments; but not a reduction to the constituent particles, like ) or disrupt, lacerate; by implication, to convulse (with spasms); figuratively, to give vent to joyful emotions
KJV usage: :--break (forth), burst, rend, tear.
Etymology: both prolonged forms of (which appears only in certain forms, and is itself probably a strengthened form of (see in ));
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
in our text (Mt. 9:17). to rend, shatter; to break or burst in pieces Mt. 9:17; Mk. 2:22; Lk. 5:37; to rend, lacerate, Mt. 7:6; to cast or dash upon the ground, convulse, Mk. 9:18; Lk. 9:42; absol. to break forth into exclamation, Gal. 4:27