1 Kings 11:30
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And Ahias taking his new garment, wherewith he was clad, divided it into twelve parts:

rent it

1 Samuel 15:27,28 And Samuel turned about to go away: but he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent. . . .

1 Samuel 24:4,5 And the servants of David said to him: Behold the day, of which the Lord said to thee: I will deliver thy enemy unto thee, that thou mayst do to him as it shall seem good in thy eyes. Then David arose, and secretly cut off the hem of Saul's robe. . . .

Context
Jeroboam's Rebellion
29So it came to pass at that time, that Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, and the prophet Ahias, the Silonite, clad with a new garment, found him in the way: and they two were alone in the field. 30And Ahias taking his new garment, wherewith he was clad, divided it into twelve parts:31And he said to Jeroboam: Take to thee ten pieces: for thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give thee ten tribes.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 15:27
And Samuel turned about to go away: but he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.

1 Samuel 15:28
And Samuel said to him: The Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to thy neighbour who is better than thee.

2 Samuel 19:43
And the men of Israel answered the men of Juda, and said: I have ten parts in the king more than thou, and David belongeth to me more than to thee: why hast thou done me a wrong, and why was it not told me first, that I might bring back my king? And the men of Juda answered more harshly than the men of Israel.

Lexicon
And Ahijah
אֲחִיָּ֔ה (’ă·ḥî·yāh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 281: Ahijah -- 'brother of Yah', an Israelite name

took hold
וַיִּתְפֹּ֣שׂ (way·yiṯ·pōś)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8610: To manipulate, seize, chiefly to capture, wield, to overlay, to use unwarrantably

of the new
הַחֲדָשָׁ֖ה (ha·ḥă·ḏā·šāh)
Article | Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2319: New

cloak
בַּשַּׂלְמָ֥ה (baś·śal·māh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8008: A wrapper, mantle

he was wearing,
עָלָ֑יו (‘ā·lāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

tore it
וַיִּ֨קְרָעֶ֔הָ (way·yiq·rā·‘e·hā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7167: To rend

into twelve
שְׁנֵ֥ים (šə·nêm)
Number - md
Strong's Hebrew 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

pieces,
קְרָעִֽים׃ (qə·rā·‘îm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7168: Torn piece (of garment), a rag


Additional Translations
And Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing, tore it into twelve pieces,And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:

And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces.

And Achia laid hold of his new garment that was upon him, and tore it into twelve pieces:

Then Ahijah seized the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces;

And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces.

And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:

Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.

and Ahijah layeth hold on the new garment that is on him, and rendeth it -- twelve pieces,
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