ἐμπρήθω
emprḗthō · G1714 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to ignite, to kindle, to set ablaze, to start a fire, to light a lamp
To cause the process of burning to begin
ExamplesMatthew 22:7 “Now the king was angry, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πόλιςcity 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- φλογίζω phlogízō · G5394 · to ignite, to kindle, to set ablaze
- The target term and φλογίζω (“to cause a blaze, to ignite”) share an identical, narrow sense: to ignite, to kindle, to set ablaze — a precise, technical convergence rather than a broad topical overlap.
In the other Testament 1 word
- שָׂרַף sâraph · H8313 · to burn
- Hebrew שָׂרַף and Greek ἐμπρήθω both denote the act of setting something on fire or burning, with ἐμπρήθω functioning as the standard Septuagint rendering of שָׂרַף in contexts of literal combustion or destruction by fire.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To ignite, to kindle, to set ablaze, to start a fire, to light a lamp14.65
- This verb means to set something on fire, used of the king's armies burning the city of the murderers who had killed his servants in the parable of the wedding feast — "Now the king was angry, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire" (Matthew 22:7).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist ἐνέπρησα; from Homer down; the Sept. for שָׂרַף and הִצִית; to burn; destroy…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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