Strong's #4682: sparasso (pronounced spar-as'-so)

prolongation from spairo (to grasp; apparently strengthened from 4685 through the idea of spasmodic contraction); to mangle, i.e. convluse with epilepsy:--rend, tear.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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sparassō

1) to convulse, tear

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: prolongation from spairo (to grasp, apparently strengthened from G4685 through the idea of spasmodic contraction)

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

Mark 1:26: "when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud"
Mark 9:20: "straightway the spirit tore him; and he fell on the"
Mark 9:26: "And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and"
Luke 9:39: "he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and"