STRONGS NUMBER G1030


Word Summary
brygmos: a biting, a gnashing of teeth
Original Word: βρυγμός
Transliteration: brygmos
Phonetic Spelling: (broog-mos')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a biting, a gnashing of teeth
Meaning: a biting, a gnashing of teeth
Strong's Concordance
gnashing.

From brucho; a grating (of the teeth) -- gnashing.

see GREEK brucho

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1030: βρυγμός

βρυγμός, βρυγμου, (βρύχω, which see), a gnashing of teeth: with τῶν ὀδόντων added, a phrase denoting the extreme anguish and utter despair of men consigned to eternal condemnation, Matthew 8:12; Matthew 13:42, 50; Matthew 22:13; Matthew 24:51; Matthew 25:30; Luke 13:28. (In Sir. 51:3 βρυγμός is attributed to beasts, which gnash the teeth as they attack their prey; in Proverbs 19:12 the Sept. for נַהַם snarling, growling; in the sense of biting, Nic. th. 716, to be derived from βρύκω to bite; cf. Fritzsche on Sirach, as above, p. 308.)