Lexicon sunthlaó: to crush together Original Word: συνθλάωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: sunthlaó Phonetic Spelling: (soon-thlah'-o) Short Definition: I break, break in pieces Definition: I break, break in pieces, crush, shatter. HELPS word-Studies 4917 synthláō (from 4862 /sýn, "together with" and thlaō, "crush") – properly, pulverize, crushing parts together into dust (note the syn). 4917 /synthláō ("to break in pieces") implies to completely shatter, i.e. break-up into dust (Souter); (figuratively) to be crushed (devastated) by resisting (colliding with) Christ. (Mt 21:44) This verse "graphically pictures the fate of the man who rejects Christ. The verb means to shatter. We are familiar with an automobile that dashes against a stone wall, a tree, or a train and the ruin that follows. Will scatter him as dust (3039 /likmáō). The verb was used of winnowing out the chaff and then of grinding to powder. This is the fate of him on whom this Rejected Stone falls" (WP, 1, 172). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom sun and thlaó (to crush) Definitionto crush together NASB Translationbroken to pieces (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4917: συνθλάωσυνθλάω, σύνθλω: 1 future passive συνθλασθήσομαι; to break to pieces, shatter ( Vulg.confringo, conquasso): Matthew 21:44 (but T omits; L Tr marginal reading WH brackets the verse); Luke 20:18. (The Sept.; ( Manetho, Alex. quoted in Athen, Eratosthenes, Aristotle (v. 1.)), Diodorus, Plutarch, others.)
Strong's break. From sun and thlao (to crush); to dash together, i.e. Shatter -- break. see GREEK sun |
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