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καῦσις

kaûsis · G2740 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. to burn, burning, to be on fire

    The process of burning

    Examples

    Hebrews 6:8 but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.

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

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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In the other Testament 1 word
בָּעַר bâʻar · H1197 · to burn
בָּעַר (bâʻar, H1197) is the Hebrew verbal root denoting the act of burning or kindling fire, serving as the natural lexical equivalent for καῦσις (kaûsis, G2740), the Greek nominal form specifically denoting the act or process of burning.
Semantic domains 1 entry
To burn, burning, to be on fire14.63
In Hebrews 6:8, the writer warns, “but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned,” using this word for the state or act of burning.
Word family 9 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

καίω kaíō · G2545 · to burn, burning, to be on fire · 12×κατακαίω katakaíō · G2618 · to burn something down, to burn something up, to reduce to ashes · 12×καυματίζω kaumatízō · G2739 · to harm by heat, to scorch · 4×καύσων kaúsōn · G2742 · heat, scorching heat · 3×καῦμα kaûma · G2738 · heat, scorching heat · 2×καυσόω kausóō · G2741 · to burn, burning, to be on fire · 2×ἐκκαίω ekkaíō · G1572 · to be inflamed with passion, to have a strong lust for, to be inflamed with lust · 1×καῦσιςkaûsis · G2740καυτηριάζω kautēriázō · G2743 · to refuse to listen to one’s conscience, to be completely insensitive to · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon καύσεως, ἡ (καίω), burning, burning up: ἧς τό τέλος εἰς καῦσιν, the fate of which land…
καύσεως, ἡ (καίω), burning, burning up: ἧς τό τέλος εἰς καῦσιν, the fate of which land (appointed it by God) is, to be burned up (by fire and brimstone from heaven cf. Deut 29:23), Heb 6:8; cf. Bleek at the passage (Herodotus, Plato, Isocrates, Plutarch, others; the Sept..)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Burning1 occurrence

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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