| Lexical Summary sparassō: to mangle, convulseOriginal Word: σπαράσσω Transliteration: sparassō Phonetic Spelling: (spar-as'-so) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to mangle, convulse Meaning: to mangle, convulse Strong's Concordanceto convulse, shake to and fro Prolongation from spairo (to grasp; apparently strengthened from spao through the idea of spasmodic contraction); to mangle, i.e. Convluse with epilepsy -- rend, tear. see GREEK spao Thayer's Greek LexiconSTRONGS NT 4682: σπαράσσω σπαράσσω; 1 aorist ἐσπαραξα; to convulse (others, tear): τινα, Mark 1:26; Mark 9:20 R G Tr text, 26; Luke 9:39; see ῤήγνυμι, c. (τάς γναθους, Aristophanes ran. 424; τάς τρίχας, Diodorus 19, 34; in various other senses in Greek writings) (Compare: συνσπαράσσω.) | 



