Lexical Summary sparassō: to mangle, convulse Original Word: σπαράσσωTransliteration: sparassō Phonetic Spelling: (spar-as'-so) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to mangle, convulse Meaning: to mangle, convulse Strong's Concordance to convulse, shake to and froProlongation from spairo (to grasp; apparently strengthened from spao through the idea of spasmodic contraction); to mangle, i.e. Convluse with epilepsy -- rend, tear. see GREEK spao Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4682: σπαράσσωσπαράσσω; 1 aorist ἐσπαραξα; to convulse (others, tear): τινα, Mark 1:26; Mark 9:20 R G Tr text, 26; Luke 9:39; see ῤήγνυμι, c. (τάς γναθους, Aristophanes ran. 424; τάς τρίχας, Diodorus 19, 34; in various other senses in Greek writings) (Compare: συνσπαράσσω.) |
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