Lexical Summary brygmos: a biting, a gnashing of teeth Original Word: βρυγμόςTransliteration: brygmos Phonetic Spelling: (broog-mos') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a biting, a gnashing of teeth Meaning: a biting, a gnashing of teeth Strong's Concordance gnashing. From brucho; a grating (of the teeth) -- gnashing. see GREEK brucho Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1030: βρυγμόςβρυγμός, βρυγμου, ὁ (βρύχω, which see), a gnashing of teeth: with τῶν ὀδόντων added, a phrase denoting the extreme anguish and utter despair of men consigned to eternal condemnation, Matthew 8:12; Matthew 13:42, 50; Matthew 22:13; Matthew 24:51; Matthew 25:30; Luke 13:28. (In Sir. 51:3 βρυγμός is attributed to beasts, which gnash the teeth as they attack their prey; in Proverbs 19:12 the Sept. for נַהַם snarling, growling; in the sense of biting, Nic. th. 716, to be derived from βρύκω to bite; cf. Fritzsche on Sirach, as above, p. 308.) |
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