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Lexicon :: Strong's G440 - anthrax

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ἄνθραξ
Transliteration
anthrax (Key)
Pronunciation
anth'-rax
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain derivation
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Strong’s Definitions

ἄνθραξ ánthrax, anth'-rax; of uncertain derivation; a live coal:—coal of fire.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G440 in the following manner: coals of fire (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G440 in the following manner: coals of fire (1x).

  1. a burning or live coal

    A proverbial expression signifying to call up, by favours you confer on your enemy, the memory in him of the wrong he has done you (which shall pain him as if live coals were heaped on his head), that he may the more readily repent. The Arabians call things that cause very acute mental pain "burning coals of the heart" and "fire of the liver".
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἄνθραξ ánthrax, anth'-rax; of uncertain derivation; a live coal:—coal of fire.
STRONGS G440:
ἄνθραξ, -ακος, ὁ, coal (also, from Thucydides and Aristophanes down, a live coal), ἄνθρ. πυρός a coal of fire i. e. a burning or live coal; Romans 12:20 ἄνθρ. πυρὸς σωρεύειν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλήν τινος, a proverbial expression, from Proverbs 25:22, signifying to call up, by the favors you confer on your enemy, the memory in him of the wrong he has done you (which shall pain him as if live coals were heaped on his head), that he may the more readily repent. The Arabians call things that cause very acute mental pain burning coals of the heart and fire in the liver; cf. Gesenius in Rosenmüller's Biblical-exeg. Repert. i., p. 140f [or in his Thesaurus i. 280; cf. also BB. DD. under the word Coal].
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Proverbs
25:22
Romans
12:20

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G440 matches the Greek ἄνθραξ (anthrax),
which occurs 27 times in 27 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:12 - And the gold of that land is good, there also is carbuncle and emerald.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:18 - And the second row, a carbuncle, a sapphire, and a jasper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:11 - (LXX 36:18) and the second row, a carbuncle and sapphire and jasper;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:12 - And he shall take his censer full of coals of fire off the altar, which is before the Lord; and he shall fill his hands with fine compound incense, and shall bring it within the veil.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7 - And behold the whole family rose up against thine handmaid, and they said, Give up the one that smote his brother, and we will put him to death for the life of his brother, whom he slew, and we will take away even your heir: so they will quench my coal that is left, so as not to [fn]leave my husband remnant or name on the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:9 - There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire out of his mouth devours: coals were kindled at it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:13 - At the brightness before him coals of fire were kindled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:20 - (LXX 41:12) Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:21 - (LXX 41:13) His breath is as live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:8 - (LXX 17:9) There went up a smoke in his wrath, and fire burst into a flame at his presence: coals were kindled at it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:12 - (LXX 17:13) At the brightness before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:4 - (LXX 119:4) Sharpened weapons of the mighty, with coals of the desert.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:10 - (LXX 139:11) Coals of fire shall fall upon them on the earth; and thou shalt cast them down in afflictions: they shall not bear up under them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:28 - or will any one walk on coals of fire, and not burn his feet?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:22 - for so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee with good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:21 - A hearth for coals, and wood for fire; and a railing man for the tumult of strife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24 - Therefore as stubble shall be burnt by a coal of fire, and shall be consumed by a violent flame, their root shall be as chaff, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and insulted the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:6 - And there was sent to me one of the seraphs, and he had in his hand a coal, which he had taken off the altar with the tongs:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:19 - And one has not considered in his mind, nor known in his understanding, that he has burnt up half of it in the fire, and baked loaves on the coals thereof and has roasted and eaten flesh, and of the rest of it he has made an abomination, and they worship it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:14 - Behold, they all shall be burnt up as sticks in the fire; neither shall they at all deliver their life from the flame. Because thou hast coals of fire, sit thou upon them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:11 - Afflicted and outcast thou hast not been comforted: behold, I will prepare carbuncle for thy stones, and sapphire for thy foundations;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:16 - Behold, I have created thee, not as the coppersmith blowing coals, and bringing out a vessel fit for work; but I have created thee, not for ruin, that I should destroy thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:13 - And in the midst of the living creatures there was an appearance as of burning coals of fire, as an appearance of lamps turning among the living creatures; and the brightness of fire, and out of the fire came forth lightning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:2 - And he said to the man clothed with the long robe, Go in between the wheels that are under the cherubs, and fill thine hands with coals of fire from between the cherubs, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:9 - And I saw, and behold, four wheels stood by the cherubs, one wheel by each cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the appearance of a carbuncle stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:11 - and that it may stand upon the coals, that her brass may be thoroughly heated, and be melted in the midst of her filthiness, and her scum may be consumed,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:13 - Thou wast in the delight of the paradise of God; thou hast bound upon thee every precious stone, the sardius, and topaz, and emerald, and carbuncle, and sapphire, and jasper, and silver, and gold, and ligure, and agate, and amethyst, and chrysolite, and beryl, and onyx: and thou hast filled thy treasures and thy stores in thee with gold.
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