Quick Definition
I rend, divide asunder
Strong's Definition
to split or sever (literally or figuratively)
Derivation: apparently a primary verb;
KJV Usage: break, divide, open, rend, make a rent
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σχίζω ((Luk_5:36 R G L marginal reading)); future (σχίσω (Luk_5:36 L text T Tr text WH (cf. Buttmann, 37 (32f))); 1 aorist ἐσχισα; passive, present participle σχιζόμενος; 1 aorist ἐσχίσθην; (allied with Latinscindo, caedo, etc. (cf. Curtius, § 295)); from ((Homer h. Merc.)) Hesiod down; the Sept. several times for αΘΜχΗς , Isa_37:1 for χΘψΗς ; to cleave, cleave asunder, rend: τί, Luk_5:36; passive, αἱ πέτραι, Mat_27:51; οἱ οὐρανοί, Mar_1:10; τό καταπέτασμα, Luk_23:45; with εἰς δύο added, into two parts, in twain ((εἰς δύο μέρη, of a river, Polybius 2, 16, 11)), Mat_27:51; Mar_15:38; τό δίκτυον, Joh_21:11; to divide by rending, τί, Joh_19:24. tropically, in the passive, to be split into factions, be divided: Act_14:4; Act_23:7, (Xenophon, conv. 4, 59; τοῦ πλήθους σχιζομενου κατά αἵρεσιν, Diodorus 12, 66).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
σχίζω schizō 11x
to split, Mat_27:51 ; Mar_15:38 ;
to rend, tear asunder, Mat_27:51 ; Luk_5:36 ; Luk_23:45 ; Joh_19:24 ; Joh_21:11 );
mid. to open or unfold with a chasm, Mar_1:10 ;
pass. met. to be divided into parties or factions, Act_14:4 ; Act_23:7 * divide; split; tear.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
σχίζω ,
[in LXX chiefly for H1234 ;]
to cleave, rend: Mat_27:51 , Mar_1:10 ; Mar_15:38 , Luk_5:36 ; Luk_23:45 , Joh_19:24 ; Joh_21:11 ; metaph ., in pass ., to be divided into factions, Act_14:4 ; Act_23:7 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
σχίζω [page 619]
For the lit. meaning cleave, rend, as in Mat_27:51 al ., cf. PSI IV. 341 .7 (B.C. 256 5) σχιστοὺς ( sc . χιτῶνας : cf. Kock CAF iii. p. 291, No. 12 σχιστὸν χιτωνίσκον τιν᾽ ἐνδέδυκας ;), P Tebt II. 273 .43, .52 (ii/iii A.D.) λίθος σχισθ [είς , P Leid W vi. 51 (ii/iii A.D.) (= II. p. 101) σχίσον ἰς δύο , ib . vii. 1 (p. 103) σχισθήσεται , and Preisigke 1 .20 (iii/A.D.) μιᾶς μέντοι κίσ [της εὑρε ]θείης ἐ [σχι ]σμένης . See also the new Logion, P Oxy I. p. 3, σχίσον τὸ ξύλον κἀγὼ ἐκεῖ εἰμί . The metaph. meaning in the pass, am divided into parties, as in Act_14:4 , is illustrated from late Greek by Field Notes , p. 121.
The comp d . ὑποσχίζω = plough is found in P Lond 1170 verso .305 (A.D. 258 9) (= III. p. 200), and ὑποσχισμός = ploughing in P Fay 112 .3 (A.D. 99) τοὺς ὑποσχ [ει ]σμοὺς καὶ διβολήτρους τῶν ἐλαιώνο (= ω )ν , the ploughing up and hoeing of the olive-yards (Edd.).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
σχίζω [Etym: Root ΣΧΙΔ] "to split, cleave", Hes. ; ἔσχισε δώδεκα μοίρας, i. e. "divided" them "into" twelve parts, Hhymn. ; σχ. κάρα πελέκει Soph. generally, "to part, separate", Νεῖλος μέσην Αἴγυπτον σχίζων Hdt. :—Pass., ἐσχίσθη ὁ ποταμός id=Soph. ; Νεῖλος σχίζεται τριφασίας ὁδούς "branches" into three channels, id=Soph. ; ἐσχίζοντό σφεων αἱ γνῶμαι their opinions "were divided", id=Soph.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
σχίζω
[in LXX chiefly for בָּקַע ;]
to cleave, rend: Mat.27:51, Mrk.1:10 15:38, Luk.5:36 23:45, Jhn.19:24 21:11; metaphorically, in pass., to be divided into factions, Act.14:4 23:7.†
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