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greek #4448 - πυρόω puroó (to set on fire)


Original Word:πυρόω
Transliteration: puroó
Definition:to set on fire, to burn (pass.)
Part of Speech:Verb
Phonetic Spelling:(poo-ro'-o)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

burn, be on fire, try.

From pur; to kindle, i.e. (passively) to be ignited, glow (literally), be refined (by implication), or (figuratively) to be inflamed (with anger, grief, lust) -- burn, fiery, be on fire, try.

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

Strong's 4448: πυρόω

πυρόω: passive, present πυροῦμαι; perfect participle πεπυρωμένος; (πῦρ); from Aeschylus and Pindar down; to burn with fire, to set on fire, to kindle; in the N. T. it is used only in the passive:

a.to be on fire, to burn: properly, 2 Peter 3:12; tropically, of the heat of the passions: of grief, 2 Corinthians 11:29 (English Versions burn (often understood of indignation, but cf. Meyer); Winer's Grammar, 153 (145)); of anger, with τοῖςθυμοῖς added, equivalent to to be incensed, indignant, 2 Macc. 4:38 2Macc. 10:35 2Macc. 14:45; to be inflamed with sexual desire, 1 Corinthians 7:9.

b. perfect participle πεπυρωμένος, made to glow (R. V. refined): Revelation 1:15 ((cf. Buttmann, 80 (69) n.)); full of fire; fiery, ignited: τάβέλη ... τάπεπυρωμένα darts filled with inflammable substances and set on fire, Ephesians 6:16 (Apollod. Bib. 2, 5, 2 § 3); melted by fire and purged of dross: χρυσίονπεπυρωμένονἐκπυρός, (refined by fire), Revelation 3:18 (so πυρόω in the Sept. for צָרַף; as τόἀγρυριον, Job 22:25; Zechariah 13:9; Psalm 11:7 (); ()).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Greek: 4448. πυρόω (puroó) — 6 Occurrences

1 Corinthians 7:9 - V-PNM/P
GRK:γαμῆσαι ἢ πυροῦσθαι
NAS: to marry than to burn [with passion].
KJV: to marry than to burn.
INT: to marry than to burn with passion

2 Corinthians 11:29 - V-PIM/P-1S
GRK:οὐκ ἐγὼ πυροῦμαι
NAS: without my intense concern?
KJV: and I burn not?
INT: not I do burn inwardly

Ephesians 6:16 - V-RPM/P-ANP
GRK:πονηροῦ τὰ πεπυρωμένα σβέσαι
NAS: all the flaming arrows
KJV: all the fiery darts
INT: evil one flaming to quench

2 Peter 3:12 - V-PPM/P-NMP
GRK:ἣν οὐρανοὶ πυρούμενοι λυθήσονται καὶ
NAS: will be destroyed by burning, and the elements
KJV: the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved,
INT: which [the] heavens being on fire will be dissolved and

Revelation 1:15 - V-RPM/P-GFS
GRK:ἐν καμίνῳ πεπυρωμένης καὶ ἡ
NAS: when it has been made to glow in a furnace,
KJV: as if they burned in
INT: in a furnace [they] glowed and the

Revelation 3:18 - V-RPM/P-ANS
GRK:ἐμοῦ χρυσίον πεπυρωμένον ἐκ πυρὸς
NAS: from Me gold refined by fire
KJV: me gold tried in the fire,
INT: me gold purified by fire

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