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G4938 σύντριμμα (sýntrimma)
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Quick Definition

σύντριμμα, ατος, τό n.n. crushing, destruction

Strong's Definition

from 4937; concussion or utter fracture (properly, concretely), i.e. complete ruin

KJV Usage: destruction

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

noun, n. | -τος | τρίβω (rub) · τρίβος

20.59 · Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill · Destroy

ruin, destruction a state of destruction and ruin In some languages it is impossible to speak of ‘leaving ruin’ except in the sense of going off from ruin. Accordingly, it may be necessary to render this expression in ROM 3:16 as ‘they cause ruin and misery wherever they go.’

ROM 3:16

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

σύν-τριμμα, -τος, τό, (συντρίβω), Sept. chiefly for 7aw ; 1. that which is broken or shattered, a fracture : Aristot. de audibil. p. 802", 34; of a broken limb, Sept. Lev. xxi. 19. 2. trop. calamity, ruin, destruction: Ro. 111. 16, fr. Is. lix. 7, where it stands for 7¥, a devastation, laying waste, as in xxii. 4; Sap. 111. 3; 1 Mace. ii. 7; [ete.].

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

σύντριμμα syntrimma 1x

a breaking, bruising; in NT destruction, ruin, Rom. 3:16*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

σύν-τριμμα, -τος, τό

(< συντρίβω), [in LXX (Le 21:19, al.) chiefly for שֶׁבֶר; also for שֹׁד (Is 59:7), etc. ;]

a fracture (Arist.; Le, l.c., al.). Metaph., calamity, destruction (Isa, l.c., Wi 3:3, al.): Ro 3:16 (LXX).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

σύντριμμα, “destruction,” ‘‘ruin” (Rom 318). For the meaning (=IL. p. tor) ἐὰν εἴπῃς ἐπὶ σπάσματος ἢ συντρίματος (Δ συντρίμματος) τὸ (ὄνομα) Ὑ, ““ἴπ spasmo aut contusione.” The subst. συντριβή occurs in the late Preisigke 5763 (A.D. 647). μὴ πρὸς τῇ τοιαύτῃ THs δίκης συντριβῇ ημιωθῇ, and in Vett. Val. p. 744: cf. Prov 1618, MGr συντρίμμια, “ruins.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

σύντριμμα (suntrimma) — ruin. σύν-τριμμα, ατος, τό, fracture, [LXX+4th c.BC+]; abrasion, [Refs 1st c.AD+]

II. affliction, ruin, [LXX]

III. collection, ἁμαρτωλῶν ἀνθρώπων (variant{σύστρεμμα}, which see)[LXX]

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