ῥῆγμαrhēgma

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

Greek (New Testament) · G4485

Meanings

1. classical Greek (and so in LXX), a fracture; then by by metonymy, that which is torn.

2. In NT, ruin: Luke 6:49.

Same root

ῥήγνυμιrhḗgnymi · G4486G2608 (κατάγνυμι) being its intensive (with the preposition in composition), and G2352 (θραύω) a shattering to minute fragments; but not a reduction to the constituent particles, like G3089 (λύω)) or disrupt, lacerate; by implication, to convulse (with spasms); figuratively, to give vent to joyful emotions

Where it appears

Appears 1 times in the Bible.

Luke 6:49 But anyone who hears and doesn’t obey is like a person who builds a house right on the ground, without a foundation. When the floods sweep down against that house, it will collapse into a heap of ruins.”

Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.