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πυρά

pyrá · G4443 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. fire, bonfire

    A pile or heap of burning material

    Examples

    Acts 28:2 The natives showed us extraordinary kindness, for they kindled a fire and took us all in because of the rain that had started and because of the cold.

    Acts 28:3 But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand.

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 done to itIt is the object

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
Fire, bonfire2.5
The noun names a fire built for warmth. Luke recounts the shipwreck at Malta: “The natives showed us extraordinary kindness, for they kindled a fire and took us all in because of the rain that had started and because of the cold” (Acts 28:2).
Word family 10 words

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

πῦρ pŷr · G4442 · fire, bonfire · 71×πυρετός pyretós · G4446 · to have a fever, fever · 6×πυρόω pyróō · G4448 · to heat, to make fiery hot, to burn · 6×Παμφυλία Pamphylía · G3828 · every-tribal, i.e. heterogeneous ; Pamphylia, a region of Asia Minor · 5×πυῤῥός pyrrhós · G4450 · fiery red · 3×πύρωσις pýrōsis · G4451 · to burn, burning, to be on fire · 3×πυράpyrá · G4443πυρέσσω pyréssō · G4445 · to have a fever, fever · 2×πυῤῥάζω pyrrházō · G4449 · to be fiery red · 2×πύρινος pýrinos · G4447 · fiery red · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πυράς, ἡ (πῦρ), from Homer down, a fire, a pile of burning fuel: Acts 28:2f
πυράς, ἡ (πῦρ), from Homer down, a fire, a pile of burning fuel: Acts 28:2f

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Fire2 occurrences

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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