πῦρ

genitive πυρός, τό (probably from Sanskritpu, 'to purify' (cf. German fever); Vanicek, p. 541; Curtius, § 385), from Homer down; Hebrew אֵשׁ; fire: Mt 3:10, Mt 3:12; Mt 7:19; Mt 17:15; Mk 9:22; Lk 3:9, Lk 3:17; Lk 9:54; Jn 15:6; Acts 2:19; Acts 28:5; 1 Cor 3:13; Heb 11:34; Jas 3:5; Jas 5:3; Rev 8:5, Rev 8:7; Rev 9:17, Rev 9:18; Rev 11:5; Rev 13:13; Rev 14:18; Rev 15:2; Rev 16:8; Rev 20:9; ά῾πτειν πῦρ, to kindle a fire, Lk 22:55 (T Tr text WH περιαψάντων); ἔβρεξε πῦρ καί θεῖον, Lk 17:29; κατακαίειν τί ἐν (T omits; WH brackets ἐν) πυρί, Rev 17:16; Rev 18:8; καίομαι πυρί, Mt 13:40 (R L T WH κατακαίεται); Heb 12:18 (Winer's Grammar, § 31, 7 d.); Rev 8:8; Rev 21:8; φλόξ πυρός, a fiery flame or flame of fire, Acts 7:30; 2 Thess 1:8 L text Tr text; Heb 1:7; Rev 1:14; Rev 2:18; Rev 19:12 (Ex 3:2, the Alex. manuscript; Isa 29:6); πῦρ φλογός, a flaming fire or fire of flame, 2 Thess 1:8 R G L marginal reading T Tr marginal reading WH (Ex 3:2, the Vaticanus manuscript; Sir. 45:19); λαμπάδες πυρός, lamps of fire, Rev 4:5; στῦλοι πυρός, Rev 10:1; ἄνθρακες πυρός coals of fire, Rom 12:20 (see ἄνθραξ); γλῶσσαι ὡσεί πυρός, which had the shape of little flames, Acts 2:3; δοκιμάζειν διά πυρός, 1 Pet 1:7; πυροῦσθαι (see πυρόω, b.) ἐκ πυρός, Rev 3:18; ὡς διά πυρός, as one who in a conflagration has escaped through the fire not uninjured, i. e. dropping the figure, not without damage, 1 Cor 3:15; מֵאֵשׁ מֻצָּל, Zech 3:2, cf. Amos 4:11. of the fire of hell we find the following expressions — which are to be taken either tropically (of the extreme penal torments which the wicked are to undergo after their life on earth; so in the discourses of Jesus), or literally (so apparently in the Apocalypse): τό πῦρ, Mk 9:44, Mk 9:46,(T WH omit; Tr brackets both verses),48; τό πῦρ τό αἰώνιον, Mt 18:8; Mt 25:41, cf. 4 Macc. 12:12; ἄσβεστον, Mk 9:43, Mk 9:45 (G T Tr WH omit; L brackets the clause); πυρός αἰωνίου δίκην ὑπέχειν, Jude 1:7; γηννα τοῦ πυρός, Mt 5:22; Mt 18:9; Mk 9:47 (R G Tr brackets); κάμινος τοῦ πυρός, Mt 13:42, Mt 13:50 (Dan 3:6); ἡ λίμνη τοῦ πυρός, Rev 19:20; Rev 20:10, Rev 20:14, Rev 20:15; πυρί τηρεῖσθαι, 2 Pet 3:7; βασανισθῆναι ἐν πυρί, Rev 14:10 (cf. Lk 16:24); βαπτίζειν τινα πυρί (see βαπτίζω, II.
b. bb.), Mt 3:11; Lk 3:16. the tongue is called πῦρ, as though both itself on fire and setting other things on fire, partly by reason of the fiery spirit which governs it, partly by reason of the destructive power it exercises, Jas 3:6; since fire disorganizes and sunders things joined together and compact, it is used to symbolize dissension, Lk 12:49. Metaphorical expressions: ἐκ πυρός ἁρπάζειν, to snatch from danger of destruction, Jude 1:23; πυρί ἁλίζεσθαι (see ἁλίζω), Mk 9:49; ζῆλος πυρός, fiery, burning anger (see ζῆλος, 1), Heb 10:27 (πῦρ ζήλου, Zeph 1:18; Zeph 3:8); God is called πῦρ καταναλίσκον, as one who when angry visits the obdurate with penal destruction, Heb 12:29.