περιρρήγνυμι (L T Tr WH περιρήγνυμι, with one rho ῥ; see the preceding word): 1 aorist participle plural περιρρήξαντες; (περί and ῤήγνυμι); to break off on all sides, break off all round (cf. περί, III. 1): τό ἱμάτιον, to rend or tear off all around, Act_16:22. So of garments also in 2Ma_4:38 and often in secular authors; Aeschylus sept. 329; Demosthenes, p. 403, 3; Polybius 15, 33, 4; Diodorus 17, 35.

περιρήγνυμι perirēgnymi 1x also spelled περιρρήγνυμι , to break or tear all around; to strip off, Act_16:22

** περι -ρήγνυμι ( Rec. -ρρ -, v. supr .), [in LXX : 2Ma_4:38 * ;] to break or tear off all around: freq . of garments, τ . ἰμάτια , Act_16:22 .†

περιρήγνυμι (~ περιρῥήγνυμι ) [page 508] In Act_16:22 περιρρήξαντες is generally understood (AV, RV) of stripping off the garments of the prisoners in preparation for a beating (cf. 2Ma_4:38 ). Ramsay, however, refers the action to the Praetors themselves, rent their clothes in loyal horror, with the fussy, consequential airs that Horace satirises in the would-be Praetor of a country town ( Sat. I. 5, 34) ( Paul , p. 219). The verb is thus taken as practically synonymous with the well-known διαρρήσσω with ἱμάτια , χιτῶνας ( Mat_26:65 , al. ), as expressive of a gesture of horror. In support of this rendering Mr. K. L. Clarke kindly refers us to Acta Thomae 63 (Lipsius-Bonnet II. ii. 180) τὴν ἐσθῆτα περιέρρηξα καὶ τὰς χεῖρας ἐπὶ τὴν ὄψιν ἐπάταξα , and cites Cyril s note on Act_14:14 ἔθος ἐστὶν Ἰουδαίοις ἐπὶ ταῖς κατὰ θεοῦ δυσφημίαις περιρηγνύναι τὰ ἱμάτια (Cramer s Catena in loc. ).

περι-ρήγνυμι (Rec. -ρρ-, see supr.) [in LXX: 2Ma.4:38 * ;] to break or tear off all around: frequently of garments, τ. ἰμάτια, Act.16:22.† (AS)