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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 Box Gen 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:12 - And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:18 - And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:11 - And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:12 - And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7 - And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:9 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:13

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:20 - Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:21 - His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:8 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:12 - At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 120:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:4 - Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 140:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:10 - Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:28 - Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 25:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:22 - For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:21 - As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24 - Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:6 - Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:19 - And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:14 - Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 54:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:11 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 54:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:16 - Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:13 - As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:2 - And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:9 - And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:11 - Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:13 - Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
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