ῥῆγ-μα G4485
A ruin, collapse, or breach resulting from violent breakage
In Luke 6:49, Jesus concludes his parable of the two builders by describing the catastrophic collapse of a house built without foundation. The Greek term conveys violent rupture—a breakage, fracture, or breach. Ancient usage includes medical contexts (tissue rupture) and architectural ones (breaches in walls or dikes). Here it captures the total ruin when the flood strikes a life built on sand rather than rock.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The complete ruin or collapse described at the climax of Jesus' parable about building on sand. The term's connotations of violent breakage and structural failure amplify the disaster that befalls those who hear Jesus' words but do not act on them—their house falls with a great crash. 1×
AR["خَرابُ"]·ben["ধ্বংস"]·DE["ῥῆγμα"]·EN["ruin"]·FR["ruine"]·heb["הֶרֶס"]·HI["विनाश"]·ID["itu"]·IT["regma"]·jav["karisakan"]·KO["무너짐이"]·RU["разрушение"]·ES["ruina"]·SW["kuanguka"]·TR["yıkımı"]
Related Senses
H4421 1. war, battle, armed conflict (319×)H0341 1. enemy, adversary, foe (284×)H3898a 1. Nifal: to fight, wage war (167×)H2026 1. kill, slay (active) (146×)H2451 1. wisdom, discernment (146×)H5483b 1. horse (the animal) (138×)H0006 1. to perish, be destroyed (105×)H7843 1. Hifil: destroy, annihilate (83×)H2491a 1. slain, fatally pierced (74×)H6862c 1. adversary, enemy, foe (69×)H8045 1. destroy, exterminate (69×)G0615 1. kill, put to death (60×)H6571b 1. horseman, cavalryman (52×)H8077a 1. desolation, waste (abstract state) (52×)G4678 1. of wisdom (51×)G4717 1. crucify, fasten to a cross (46×)H2763a 1. utterly destroy (Hifil active) (44×)G0622 1. perish, be destroyed (intransitive) (41×)H0006 2. to destroy, annihilate (Piel) (38×)H8074 1. be desolate, lie waste (36×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
ῥῆγ-μα, ατος, τό, (ῥήγνυμι) breakage, fracture, joined with σπάσμα, Refs 5th c.BC+; with στρέμμα (a strain), Refs 4th c.BC+ __2 laceration, rupture, Refs 4th c.BC+ __3 rent, tear, in clothes, Refs 5th c.BC+ __4 cleft, chasm, ῥ. τῆς γῆς Refs 4th c.BC+; chink, ἐν τοίχοις Refs 2nd c.BC+; breach in a dyke, Refs 1st c.AD+ __II lesion or rupture of tissue, ὅταν ὑπὸ βίης διαστέωσιν αἱ σάρκες ἀπ᾽ ἀλλήλων…