4682 - sparassó

Strong's Concordance

Original word: σπαράσσω
Transliteration: sparassó
Definition (short): convulsions
Definition (full): to mangle, convulse

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: akin to spairó (to gasp)
Definition: to mangle, convulse
NASB Translation: throwing...into...convulsions (2), throws...into a convulsion (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Prolongation from spairo (to grasp; apparently strengthened from spao through the idea of spasmodic contraction); to mangle, i.e. Convluse with epilepsy -- rend, tear.

see GREEK spao

References

Strong's 4682: 4 Occurrences
KJV: And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.
NASB: Throwing him into convulsions, the unclean spirit cried out with a loud voice and came out of him.
KJV: And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
NASB: After crying out and throwing him into terrible convulsions, it came out; and the boy became so much like a corpse that most of them said, "He is dead!"
KJV: And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him.
NASB: and a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly screams, and it throws him into a convulsion with foaming at the mouth; and only with difficulty does it leave him, mauling him as it leaves.