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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak.

2. (v. t.) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.

3. (v. i.) To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.

Greek

4977. schizo -- to cleave, split
... to cleave, split. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: schizo Phonetic Spelling:
(skhid'-zo) Short Definition: I rend, divide asunder Definition: I rend ...
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4486. rhegnumi -- to break apart, by ext. to throw down
... down. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: rhegnumi Phonetic Spelling:
(hrayg'-noo-mee) Short Definition: I break, break forth Definition: I rend, break ...
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1284. diarresso -- to tear asunder
... Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: diarresso Phonetic Spelling: (dee-ar-hrayce'-
so) Short Definition: I tear asunder Definition: I tear asunder, burst, rend ...
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4048. periregnumi -- to tear off all around
... tear off completely. From peri and rhegnumi; to tear all around, ie Completely
away -- rend off. see GREEK peri. see GREEK rhegnumi. ...
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673. apochorizo -- to separate, part asunder
... to depart, to separate. From apo and chorizo; to rend apart; reflexively, to
separate -- depart (asunder). see GREEK apo. see GREEK chorizo. ...
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4682. sparasso -- to mangle, convulse
... from spairo (to grasp; apparently strengthened from spao through the idea of spasmodic
contraction); to mangle, ie Convluse with epilepsy -- rend, tear. ...
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4952. susparasso -- to convulse completely
... to convulse. From sun and sparasso; to rend completely, ie (by analogy) to convulse
violently -- throw down. see GREEK sun. see GREEK sparasso. ...
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2608. katagnumi -- to break in pieces
... break. From kata and the base of rhegnumi; to rend in pieces, ie Crack apart --
break. see GREEK kata. see GREEK rhegnumi. (kateagosin) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2963. taraph -- to tear, rend, pluck
... 2962, 2963. taraph. 2964 . to tear, rend, pluck. Transliteration: taraph Phonetic
Spelling: (taw-raf') Short Definition: tear. Word Origin a prim. ...
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6533. param -- to tear or rend (a garment)
... param. 6534 . to tear or rend (a garment). Transliteration: param Phonetic Spelling:
(paw-ram') Short Definition: tear. ... rend. A primitive root; to tear -- rend ...
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7167. qara -- to tear
... root Definition to tear NASB Word Usage cut (2), enlarge (1), rend (3), slandered
(1), split apart (2), surely tear (1), tear (7), tear apart (1), tear away (1 ...
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8156. shasa -- to divide, cleave
... cleave, be cloven footed, rend, stay. A primitive root; to split or tear; figuratively,
to upbraid -- cleave, (be) cloven ((footed)), rend, stay. 8155, 8156. ...
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1234. baqa -- to cleave, break open or through
... A primitive root; to cleave; generally, to rend, break, rip or open -- make a breach,
break forth (into, out, in pieces, through, up), be ready to burst ...
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6561. paraq -- to tear apart or away
... break off, deliver, redeem, rend in pieces, tear in pieces. A primitive root;
to break off or crunch; figuratively, to deliver -- break ...
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6475. patsah -- to part, open
... deliver, gape, open, rid, utter. A primitive root; to rend, ie Open (especially
the mouth) -- deliver, gape, open, rid, utter. 6474, 6475. patsah. 6476 . ...
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6480. patsam -- to split open
... root Definition to split open NASB Word Usage split it open (1). break. A primitive
root; to rend (by earthquake) -- break. 6479, 6480. patsam. 6481 . ...
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6426. palats -- to shudder
... tremble. A primitive root; properly, perhaps to rend, ie (by implication) to quiver --
tremble. 6425, 6426. palats. 6427 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

Fifth Sunday after Epiphany Oh that Thou Wouldst Rend the Heavens ...
... Fifth Sunday After Epiphany Oh that Thou wouldst rend the heavens, that Thou wouldst
come down, that the mountains might flow down at Thy presence . . . ...
/.../winkworth/lyra germanica the christian year/fifth sunday after epiphany oh.htm

Chapter xx.
... Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine,
lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." For ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/augustine/our lords sermon on the mount/chapter xx 2.htm

The Fall of Solomon
... Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept My covenant and
My statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/the fall of solomon.htm

Archaisms in the Hymns
... And, finally, there is the use of rent' for rend': My stony heart Thy voice
shall rent,. Thou wilt, I trust, the veil remove. [45]. ...
/.../iii archaisms in the hymns.htm

Solomon's Repentance
... message: "Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept My covenant
and My statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 5 solomons repentance.htm

John Chapter xix. 23, 24
... They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it,
whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They ...
/.../augustine/homilies on the gospel of john/tractate cxviii john chapter xix.htm

He Explains what it Means to Confess, and what it Means to ...
... "Every one who dissolves Jesus is not of God." But to dissolve Him is to try to
rend asunder what is united in Jesus; and to sever what is but one and ...
/.../cassian/the seven books of john cassian /chapter x he explains what.htm

St. Thomas Also Confessed the Same Faith as Peter after the Lord's ...
... lesson. He had never learnt to separate, as you do, the Lord from His body:
and had no idea how to rend God asunder from Himself. ...
/.../cassian/the seven books of john cassian /chapter xv st thomas also.htm

An Exhortation to the People Respecting Fortitude and Patience...
... For another Prophet admonishes of this, when he says, "Rend your hearts and not
your garments." [1192] Let us then rend our hearts, that if any evil plant, any ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/homily iv an exhortation to.htm

Before Annas and the Court of Caiaphas
... sentence. A high priest was not to rend his garments. ... death. Under no
circumstances, on no occasion, was the priest to rend his robe. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/white/the desire of ages/chapter 75 before annas and.htm

Thesaurus

Rend (35 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Rend (35 Occurrences). ... Genesis 44:13 and they rend their
garments, and each ladeth his ass, and they turn back to the city. (YLT). ...
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Tear (97 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate;
as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh. ...
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Rent (76 Occurrences)
... 1. (imp. & pp) of Rend. 2. (vi) To rant. 3. (v.) imp. & pp of Rend. 4. (n.) An opening
made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear. ...
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Blast (28 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth,
etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for ...
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Asunder (37 Occurrences)
... It is found in combination with break (twice), burst, cleave (twice), depart, cut
(six times), divide (three times), drive, part, pluck, put (twice), rend, saw ...
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Affirmation (335 Occurrences)
... in thy hearing that which I have spoken against this place, and against its inhabitants,
to be for a desolation, and for a reviling, and dost rend thy garments ...
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Uncover (35 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 10:6 And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his
sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest ...
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Garments (232 Occurrences)
... YLT NAS RSV). Genesis 44:13 and they rend their garments, and each ladeth
his ass, and they turn back to the city. (YLT). Genesis 45 ...
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Untempered (5 Occurrences)
... it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower;
and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it. ...
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Jerobo'am (92 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 11:31 And he said to Jeroboam: 'Take thee ten pieces; for thus saith the
LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of ...
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Resources

What is the open heaven concept? | GotQuestions.org

What does it mean to be overrighteous and overwise (Ecclesiastes 7:16)? | GotQuestions.org

What did it mean to tear one's clothes in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

Rend: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Rend (35 Occurrences)

Matthew 7:6
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Luke 5:36
And he spake also a parable unto them: No man rendeth a piece from a new garment and putteth it upon an old garment; else he will rend the new, and also the piece from the new will not agree with the old.
(Root in ASV DBY)

Genesis 44:13
and they rend their garments, and each ladeth his ass, and they turn back to the city.
(YLT)

Exodus 28:32
And its opening for the head shall be in the midst thereof; there shall be a binding of woven work at its opening round about; as the opening of a coat of mail, it shall be in it it shall not rend.
(DBY)

Exodus 39:23
And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
(KJV DBY WBS)

Leviticus 1:17
and he shall rend it by the wings thereof, but'shall not divide it asunder; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.
(See JPS ASV)

Leviticus 10:6
And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Leviticus 13:56
And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Leviticus 21:10
And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

2 Samuel 3:31
And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

1 Kings 11:11
Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

1 Kings 11:12
Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

1 Kings 11:13
Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

1 Kings 11:31
And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

1 Kings 14:8
and rend the kingdom from the house of David, and give it to thee, -- and thou hast not been as My servant David who kept My commands, and who walked after Me with all his heart, to do only that which 'is' right in Mine eyes,
(YLT)

2 Kings 2:24
And he looketh behind him, and seeth them, and declareth them vile in the name of Jehovah, and two bears come out of the forest, and rend of them forty and two lads.
(YLT)

2 Kings 22:19
Because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before Jehovah, when thou heardest what I spoke against this place and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and didst rend thy garments and weep before me, I also have heard thee, saith Jehovah.
(DBY YLT)

2 Chronicles 21:17
and they come up into Judah, and rend it, and take captive all the substance that is found at the house of the king, and also his sons, and his wives, and there hath not been left to him a son except Jehoahaz the youngest of his sons.
(YLT)

2 Chronicles 32:1
After these things and this truth, come hath Sennacherib king of Asshur, yea, he cometh in to Judah, and encampeth against the cities of the bulwarks, and saith to rend them unto himself.
(YLT)

2 Chronicles 34:27
Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.
(KJV DBY WBS YLT)

Job 2:12
and they lift up their eyes from afar and have not discerned him, and they lift up their voice and weep, and rend each his robe, and sprinkle dust on their heads -- heavenward.
(YLT)

Psalms 7:2
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
(Root in KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)

Psalms 50:22
"Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.
(See RSV)

Ecclesiastes 3:7
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Isaiah 7:6
We go up into Judah, and we vex it, And we rend it unto ourselves, And we cause a king to reign in its midst -- The son of Tabeal.
(YLT)

Isaiah 64:1
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 36:24
And the king and all his servants who are hearing all these words have not been afraid, nor rent their garments.
(See NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 13:11
Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
(KJV ASV WBS YLT)

Ezekiel 13:13
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
(KJV ASV WBS)

Ezekiel 29:7
When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Hosea 5:14
For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.
(See RSV)

Hosea 13:8
I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Hosea 13:9
And I consume them there as a lioness, A beast of the field doth rend them.
(YLT)

Joel 2:13
And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Micah 1:4
Melted have been the mountains under Him, And the valleys do rend themselves, As wax from the presence of fire, As waters cast down by a slope.
(YLT)

Subtopics

Rend

Related Terms

Tear (97 Occurrences)

Rent (76 Occurrences)

Blast (28 Occurrences)

Asunder (37 Occurrences)

Affirmation (335 Occurrences)

Uncover (35 Occurrences)

Garments (232 Occurrences)

Untempered (5 Occurrences)

Jerobo'am (92 Occurrences)