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πυῤῥός

pyrrhós · G4450 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. fiery red

    Fiery red (probably with a tinge of yellow or orange)

    Examples

    Revelation 6:4 And another, a red horse, went out; and to him who sat on it, it was granted to take peace from the earth, and that people would kill one another; and a large sword was given to him.

    Revelation 12:3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven crowns.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

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.

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.

Semantic domains 3 entries
Pythius93.304
The proper name identifies Pyrrhus of Berea, father of Paul's traveling companion Sopater: “he was accompanied by Sopater of Berea, the son of Pyrrhus” (Acts 20:4).
Pyrrhus93.305
The same proper name is the referent of this entry as well: “he was accompanied by Sopater of Berea, the son of Pyrrhus” (Acts 20:4).
Color79.31
Beyond the proper-name sense already attested, this same lexeme's other two occurrences describe the color red: “Then another sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns” (Revelation 12:3).
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×πυῤῥόςpyrrhós · G4450πύρωσις pýrōsis · G4451 · to burn, burning, to be on fire · 3×πυρά pyrá · G4443 · fire, bonfire · 2×πυρέσσω 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 πυρρά, πυρρόν (from πῦρ), from Aeschylus and Herodotus down, having the color of fire,…
πυρρά, πυρρόν (from πῦρ), from Aeschylus and Herodotus down, having the color of fire, red: Rev 6:4; Rev 12:3. The Sept. several times for אָדֹם.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Color2 occurrencesPersons1 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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