Rhēgma — G4485

Definition

neuter noun

something torn, i.e. a fragment (by implication and abstractly, a fall)

1. a fracture, breach, cleft
2. plural for קְרָעִים, torn clothes
3. fall, ruin

Usually translated as

ruin

Origin

from G4486

• rhḗgnymi (G4486)

Occurrences

Rhēgma occurs 1 time in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Luke (1)

• Luke 6:49 — But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin (ῥῆγμα) of that house was great.