STRONGS G4048:
περιρρήγνυμι (
L T Tr WH περιρήγνυμι, with one rho
ῥ; see the preceding word): 1 aorist participle plural
περιρρήξαντες; (
περί and
ῤήγνυμι);
to break off on all sides, break off all round (cf.
περί, III. 1):
τό ἱμάτιον,
to rend or tear off all around, Acts 16:22. So of garments also in 2 Macc. 4:38 and often in secular authors;
Aeschylus sept. 329;
Demosthenes, p. 403, 3;
Polybius 15, 33, 4;
Diodorus 17, 35.
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