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ἄσβεστος

ásbestos · G762 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. unquenchable

    Pertaining to a fire that cannot be put out

    Examples

    Matthew 3:12 “His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

    Mark 9:43 “And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed, than, having your two hands, to go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.

    Luke 3:17 “His winnowing fork is in His hand to thoroughly clear His threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

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.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Unquenchable14.71
Used of the fire of judgment described as unquenchable in the preaching of John the Baptist and in Jesus' warnings about hell.
Word family 2 words

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

σβέννυμι sbénnymi · G4570 · to extinguish a fire, to put out a fire, to stop · 6×ἄσβεστοςásbestos · G762
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἄσβεστον (σβέννυμι), unquenched (Ovid,inexstinctus), unquenchable…
ἄσβεστον (σβέννυμι), unquenched (Ovid,inexstinctus), unquenchable (Vulg.inexstinguibilis): πῦρ, Mt 3:12; Lk 3:17; Mk 9:43, and R G L brackets in 45. (Often in Homer; πῦρ ἄσβεστος of the perpetual fire of Vesta, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 1, 76; (of the fire on the altar, Philo de ebriet. § 34 (Mang. i. 378); de vict. off. § 5 (Mang. 2:254); of the fire of the magi, Strabo 15 (3) 15; see also Plutarch, symp. 50:7, probl. 4; Aelian nat. an. 5, 3; cf. Heinichen on Eusebius, h. e. 6, 41, 15).)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Burning3 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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