'Tore' in the Bible

Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has blasphemed! What further need do we have of witnesses? Behold, you have now heard the blasphemy;

But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their robes and rushed out into the crowd, crying out

The crowd rose up together against them, and the chief magistrates tore their robes off them and proceeded to order them to be beaten with rods.