Burst
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
see Break , A. No. 6.
primarily, "to crack, or crash," denotes "to burst asunder with a crack, crack open" (always of making a noise), is used in Acts 1:18 .
King James Dictionary [2]
Burst pret. and pp. burst. The old participle bursten is nearly obsolete.
1. To fly or break open with force, or with sudden violence to suffer a violent disruption. The peculiar force of this word is, in expressing a sudden rupture, with violence, or expansion, or both. Hence it is generally used to signify the sudden rupture of a thing by internal force,and a liberation from confinement as, to burst from a prison the heart bursts with grief. 2. To break away to spring from as, to burst from the arms. 3. To come or fall upon suddenly or with violence to rush upon unexpectedly as, a sound bursts upon our ears. 4. To issue suddenly, or to come from a hidden or retired place into more open view as, a river bursts from a valley a spring bursts from the earth. 5. To break forth into action suddenly as, to burst into tears. 6. To break or rush in with violence as, to burst into a house or a room.
It is often followed by an intensive particle as, out, forth, away, from, or asunder.
BURST, To break or rend by force or violence to open suddenly as, to burst a chain or a door to burst a cannon.
BURST, n. A sudden disruption a violent rending more appropriately, a sudden explosion or shooting forth as a burst of thunder a burst of applause, a burst of passion.
1. A rupture, a hernia, or the unnatural protrusion of the contents of the abdomen.
BURST, or BURST'EN, pp. or a. Affected with a rupture or hernia.
BURST, pp. Opened or rent asunder by violence.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): (v. i.) To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden and violent exertion of force, or to pressure from within; to explode; as, the boiler had burst; the buds will burst in spring.
(2): (v. i.) To exert force or pressure by which something is made suddenly to give way; to break through obstacles or limitations; hence, to appear suddenly and unexpectedly or unaccountably, or to depart in such manner; - usually with some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc.
(3): (v. t.) To break or rend by violence, as by an overcharge or by strain or pressure, esp. from within; to force open suddenly; as, to burst a cannon; to burst a blood vessel; to burst open the doors.
(4): (v. t.) To break.
(5): (imp. & p. p.) of Burst
(6): (v. t.) To produce as an effect of bursting; as, to burst a hole through the wall.
(7): (n.) A sudden breaking forth; a violent rending; an explosion; as, a burst of thunder; a burst of applause; a burst of passion; a burst of inspiration.
(8): (n.) Any brief, violent exertion or effort; a spurt; as, a burst of speed.
(9): (n.) A sudden opening, as of landscape; a stretch; an expanse.
(10): (n.) A rupture or hernia; a breach.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [4]
Proverbs 3:10 (b) This is a picture of the great material blessing that GOD would give to His obedient people.
Jeremiah 2:20 (b) Here is a figure to represent GOD's delivering hand for Israel from her enemies, the Assyrians. (See also Jeremiah 30:8; Nahum 1:13).
Jeremiah 5:5 (b) Here is the story of the great men of Israel who refused to bow to the law of GOD and threw off the yoke of the Lord that they might be joined to idols.
