φλογίζω
phlogízō · G5394 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to ignite, to kindle, to set ablaze, to start a fire, to light a lamp
To cause the process of burning to begin
ExamplesJames 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, the very world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our body’s parts as that which defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 2
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τροχόςcourse 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὑπόby, under+ γέενναhell 1
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἐμπρήθω emprḗthō · G1714 · to ignite, to kindle, to set ablaze
- Both verbs denote the specific action of setting something on fire or kindling it, converging directly on this sense of ignition.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To ignite, to kindle, to set ablaze, to start a fire, to light a lamp14.65
- James 3:6 describes the tongue as a fire that is itself “set on fire by hell”, setting the course of life on fire.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (φλόξ, which see); to ignite, set on fire (Sir. 3:30; Ex 9:24; Ps 96:3; to burn up, 1…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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