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πύρωσις

pýrōsis · G4451 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to burn, burning, to be on fire

    The process of burning

    Examples

    Revelation 18:9 “And the kings of the earth, who committed acts of sexual immorality and lived luxuriously with her, will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her burning,

    Revelation 18:18 and were crying out as they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What city is like the great city?’

  2. to suffer pain, to experience severe suffering, painful suffering

    (A figurative extension of meaning of πύρωσις ‘to burn,’) The experience of painful suffering

    Examples

    1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though something strange were happening to you;

  3. intense, intensity, exceptional degree of

    (A figurative extension of meaning of πύρωσις ‘burning,’) An exceptionally intense degree of some experience, with the implication of suffering

    Examples

    1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though something strange were happening to you;

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

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 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 3 entries
To burn, burning, to be on fire14.63
The noun names literal burning, used figuratively of a trial. Peter writes, “do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, which comes upon you for your testing, as though something strange were happening to you” (1 Peter 4:12).
To suffer pain, to experience severe suffering, painful suffering24.91
The same noun, in its use for Babylon's destruction, is tied to the anguish of those who witness it. John's vision describes the kings of the earth who “will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her burning” (Revelation 18:9).
Intense, intensity, exceptional degree of78.37
The same noun also conveys the sheer scale and intensity of the conflagration itself. John's vision describes those crying out, “as they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What city is like the great city?’” (Revelation 18:18).
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×πύρωσιςpýrōsis · G4451πυρά 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 πυρώσεως, ἡ (πυρόω), a burning: Rev 18:9, Rev 18:18; the burning by which metals are…
πυρώσεως, ἡ (πυρόω), a burning: Rev 18:9, Rev 18:18; the burning by which metals are roasted or reduced; by a figure drawn from the refiner's fire (on which cf. Prov 27:21), calamities or trials that test character: 1 Pet 4:12 (Tertullian adv. Gnost. 12 ne expavescatis ustionem, quae agitur in vobis in tentationem), cf. 1 Pet 1:7 ((ἡ πύρωσις τῆς δοκιμασίας, 'Teaching etc. 16, 5 [ET])). (In the same and other senses by Aristotle, Theophrastus, Plutarch, others.)

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

Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Burning2 occurrencesPain, Suffering1 occurrenceMore Than, Less Than [Comparative Degree]1 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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