UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

Sense 1: to make grieve, to break one’s heart

Semantic entry: 25.282

Semantic domains: Attitudes and Emotions

Subdomains: Sorrow, Regret

Definition: (an idiom, literally: to break the heart) to cause great sorrow and grief

Notes: It is rare that one can reproduce in a literal form the idiom συνθρύπτω τὴν καρδίαν. A frequent equivalent of ‘to break one’s heart’ is ‘to cause one to cry.’ In some languages one may even have ‘to cause one’s heart to cry.’

Collocations: συνθρύπτω τὴν καρδίαν