Strong's #4977: schizo (pronounced skhid'-zo)

apparently a primary verb; to split or sever (literally or figuratively):--break, divide, open, rend, make a rent.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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schizō

1) to cleave, cleave asunder, rend

2) to divide by rending

3) to split into factions, be divided

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: apparently a primary verb

Citing in TDNT: 7:959, 1130

Usage:

This word is used 10 times:

 

Matthew 27:51: "veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top"
Matthew 27:51: "and the rocks rent;"
Mark 1:10: "he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like"
Mark 15:38: "veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top"
Luke 5:36: "then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that"
Luke 23:45: "veil of the temple was rent in the midst."
John 19:24: "among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for"
John 21:11: "for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken."
Acts 14:4: "multitude of the city was divided: and part held"
Acts 23:7: "and the multitude was divided."