Definition

something torn, i.e. a fragment (by implication and abstractly, a fall)

Etymology

from G4486 (ῥήγνυμι);

Word family

• ῥήγνυμι rhḗgnymi

How the KJV renders it

• ruin

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.