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Asunder
a-sun’-der: This word occurs 22 times in the King James Version, 13 in Old Testament and 9 in the New Testament. It is found in combination with break (twice), burst, cleave (twice), depart, cut (six times), divide (three times), drive, part, pluck, put (twice), rend, saw. These are the translation of 9 Hebrew, and 4 Greek words.
Break asunder
(1) (parpar): Job, in reply to Eliphaz, complains about God, "I was at ease, and he brake me asunder" (
(2) (nitteq): In
Burst asunder (lasko): This was the fate of Judas (
Cleave asunder
(1) (nibhqa’): The same root as of biq`ah, "a valley." "The ground clave asunder" and swallowed up Dathan and Abiram with their households (
(2) (pillach): Job complains of God, "He cleaveth my reins asunder" (
Cut asunder
(1) (qitstsets): The Lord "cut asunder the cords of the wicked" (
(2) (gadha’): "to cut off a branch or cut down a tree." "How is the hammer of the whole earth (Babylon) cut asunder!" (
(3) (dichotomeo): The fate of the Unfaithful Steward, literally, "cut in two"; the Revised Version, margin "severely scourge him" (
Depart asunder (apochorizomai): Paul and Barnabas "departed asunder from one another" (
Divide asunder
(1) (hibhdil): Usually to separate, to make a division between. Here the reference is to the offering of pigeons or turtledoves (
(2) (merismos): From merizo, "to divide." The noun is abstract, "the act of dividing." The word of God pierces "even to the dividing of soul and spirit" (
Drive asunder (hittir): Lit. "to cause to tremble," then "to loosen." God "drove asunder the nations" (
Pluck asunder (diaspao): To bear asunder, to part forcibly. "Chains had been plucked asunder" by the demoniac of the Gerasenes (
Put asunder (chorizo): To sever one from another. See the words of Jesus on divorce (
Rend asunder (nibhqa`): The same Hebrew word as "cleave asunder."
(1) "And No shall be rent asunder" (
(2) the Revised Version (British and American) for the King James Version "plucked asunder" (