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Lexicon :: Strong's G440 - anthrax

Aa
ἄνθραξ
Transliteration
anthrax (Key)
Pronunciation
anth'-rax
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain derivation
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Strong’s Definitions

ἄνθραξ ánthrax, anth'-rax; of uncertain derivation; a live coal:—coal of fire.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G440 in the following manner: coals of fire (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G440 in the following manner: coals of fire (1x).

  1. a burning or live coal

    A proverbial expression signifying to call up, by favours you confer on your enemy, the memory in him of the wrong he has done you (which shall pain him as if live coals were heaped on his head), that he may the more readily repent. The Arabians call things that cause very acute mental pain "burning coals of the heart" and "fire of the liver".
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἄνθραξ ánthrax, anth'-rax; of uncertain derivation; a live coal:—coal of fire.
STRONGS G440:
ἄνθραξ, -ακος, ὁ, coal (also, from Thucydides and Aristophanes down, a live coal), ἄνθρ. πυρός a coal of fire i. e. a burning or live coal; Romans 12:20 ἄνθρ. πυρὸς σωρεύειν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλήν τινος, a proverbial expression, from Proverbs 25:22, signifying to call up, by the favors you confer on your enemy, the memory in him of the wrong he has done you (which shall pain him as if live coals were heaped on his head), that he may the more readily repent. The Arabians call things that cause very acute mental pain burning coals of the heart and fire in the liver; cf. Gesenius in Rosenmüller's Biblical-exeg. Repert. i., p. 140f [or in his Thesaurus i. 280; cf. also BB. DD. under the word Coal].
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Proverbs
25:22
Romans
12:20

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G440 matches the Greek ἄνθραξ (anthrax),
which occurs 27 times in 27 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:12 - and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:18 - and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:11 - and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:12 - And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Jehovah, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:7 - And, behold, the whole family is risen against thy handmaid, and they say, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:9 -
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,
And fire out of his mouth devoured:
Coals were kindled by it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:13 -
At the brightness before him
Coals of fire were kindled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:20 -
Out of his nostrils a smoke goeth,
As of a boiling pot and burning rushes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:21 -
His breath kindleth coals,
And a flame goeth forth from his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:8 -
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,
And fire out of his mouth devoured:
Coals were kindled by it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:12 -
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,
Hailstones and coals of fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:4 -
Sharp arrows of the mighty,
With coals of juniper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:10 -
Let burning coals fall upon them:
Let them be cast into the fire,
Into deep pits, whence they shall not rise.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:28

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:28 -
Or can one walk upon hot coals,
And his feet not be scorched?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:22

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:22 -
For thou wilt heap coals of fire upon his head,
And Jehovah will reward thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:21 -
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire,
So is a contentious man to inflame strife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24 - Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:6 - Then flew one of the seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:19 - And none calleth to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:14 - Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:11 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:16 - Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the fire of coals, and bringeth forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:13 - As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: the fire went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:2 - And he spake unto the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both thy hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:9 - And I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like unto a beryl stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:11 - Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that it may be hot, and the brass thereof may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the rust of it may be consumed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:13 - Thou wast in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was in thee; in the day that thou wast created they were prepared.
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