Quick Definition
ῥῆγμα, ατος, τό n.n. a ruin
Strong's Definition
from 4486; something torn, i.e. a fragment (by implication and abstractly, a fall)
KJV Usage: ruin
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, n. | -τος | ῥήγνυμι
20.58 · Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill · Destroy
destruction, crash the event of destruction, involving splitting open and breaking Though the noun ῥῆγμα with the derivative suffix μα might lead one to assume that the reference is to a state of ruin or destruction, the context points to the actual event of destruction, and therefore the translation of ‘crash’ or ‘destruction.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ῥῆγμα, -τος, τό, (ῥήγνυμι), what has been broken or rent asunder ; a. a fracture, breach, cleft: Hippocr., Dem., [Aristot.], Polyb., al.; for j»p3, Am. vi. 11 Alex. b. plur. for Dy, rent clothes: 1 K. xi. 80 sq.; 2 K. ii. 12. ce. fall, ruin: Lk. vi. 49.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ῥῆγμα rhēgma 1x
a rent; a crash, ruin, Lk. 6:49*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ῥῆγμα, -τος, τό
(< ῥήγνυμι), [in LXX: III Ki 11:30, 31 12:24, IV Ki 2:12 (קְרָעִים), Am 6:12 (11) A (בְּקִיעַ) * ;]
cl. (and so in LXX), a fracture; then by meton., that which is torn.
In NT, ruin: Lk 6:49.†
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ῥῆγμα (rhēgma) — destruction. ῥῆγ-μα, ατος, τό, (ῥήγνυμι) breakage, fracture, joined with σπάσμα, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; with στρέμμα (a strain), [Refs 4th c.BC+]
2. laceration, rupture, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
3. rent, tear, in clothes, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
4. cleft, chasm, ῥ. τῆς γῆς [Refs 4th c.BC+]; chink, ἐν τοίχοις [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; breach in a dyke, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II. lesion or rupture of tissue, ὅταν ὑπὸ βίης διαστέωσιν αἱ σάρκες ἀπ᾽ ἀλλήλων [Refs 5th c.BC+]:hence ῥηγμᾰτίας, ου, ὁ, one who has such a rupture, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; but ῥηγματίας πλεύμονος perhaps = pleurisy, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ῥηγμᾰτώδης, ες, [Refs]