Strong’s G1288 · Greek
διασπάω
diaspáō · dee-as-pah'-o
Origin from διά (G1223) and σπάω (G4685);
Meaning to draw apart, i.e. sever or dismember
In the King James Version pluck asunder, pull in pieces.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Mark 5:4Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
- Acts 23:10And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.