Original Word: διαπρίω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: diaprió
Phonetic Spelling: (dee-ap-ree'-o)
Definition: to saw asunder, cut to the heart
Usage: (lit: I saw through), I cut to the quick (with indignation and envy).

1282 diapríō (from 1223 /diá, "through" and priō, "cut with a saw") – properly, cut all the way through; (figuratively) emotionally "sawn asunder," as when the heart is "ripped in two" ("cut to the quick") – i.e. when a person is "split down the center" (emotionally) when overcome with indignation (envy, outrage).

Word Origin
from dia and the same as prizó
Definition
to saw asunder, cut to the heart
NASB Translation
cut (1), cut to the quick (1).

STRONGS NT 1282: διαπρίω

διαπρίω: imperfect passive διεπριομην; to saw asuuder or in twain, to divide by a saw: 1 Chronicles 20:3; Plato, conv., p. 193 a.; Aristophanes eqq. 768, and elsewhere. Passive tropically, to be sawn through mentally, i. e. to be rent with vexation (A. V. cut to the heart), Acts 5:33; with the addition ταῖς καρδίαις αὐτῶν, Acts 7:54 (cf. Luke 2:35); μεγάλως ἐχαλεπαινον καί διεπρίοντο καθ' ἡμῶν, Eusebius, h. e. 5, 1, 6 (15, Heinich. edition; cf. Gataker, Advers. misc. col. 916 g.).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

cut to the heart.

From dia and the base of prizo; to saw asunder, i.e. (figuratively) to exasperate -- cut (to the heart).

see GREEK dia

see GREEK prizo

Forms and Transliterations

διαπτώσει διαπτώσεως διάπτωσις διαρπαγή διαρπαγήν διεπριοντο διεπρίοντο διέπρισε dieprionto diepríonto

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