Greek noun (neuter) · G4442
πῦρ
pyrpoor
fire
70 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pŷr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4442is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 13 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4442
"fire" (literally or figuratively, specially, lightning)
The King James renders it: fiery, fire.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
pyr is rendered "fire". It stands 70 times in the Greek text, across thirteen books.
- Twenty-six of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 3:10The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
Matthew 3:10πῦρ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- fire38
- of fire18
- with fire9
- a fire3
- for fire1
- in fire1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 70, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πῦρ26
- πυρὸς18
- πυρὶ12
- πυρός7
- πυρί4
- πυρός.¶3
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular28N-GSN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular16N-ASN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular16N-DSN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular10N-NSN
Matthew
twelve uses
The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
- πῦρpurnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: fire
I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
- πυρίpurinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: with fire
His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
- πυρὶpurinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: with fire
But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be subject to the fire of hell.
- πυρός.¶purosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of fire
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
- πῦρpurnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: fire
As the weeds are collected and burned in the fire, so will it be at the end of the age.
- πυρὶpurinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: in fire
And they will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- πυρόςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: fire
and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- πυρόςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: fire
“Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water.
- πῦρpurnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: fire
If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than to have two hands and two feet and be thrown into the eternal fire.
- πῦρpurnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: fire
And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.
- πυρόςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: fire
Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
- πῦρpurnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: fire
Mark
four uses
“It often throws him into the fire or into the water, trying to kill him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
- πῦρpurnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: fire
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
- πῦρpurnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: fire
where ‘their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.’
- πῦρpurnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: fire
For everyone will be salted with fire.
- πυρὶpurinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: with fire
Luke
seven uses
The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”
- πῦρpurnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: fire
John answered all of them: “I baptize you with water, but One more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
- πυρίpurinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: with fire
His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
- πυρὶpurinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: with fire
When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”
- πῦρpurnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: fire
I have come to ignite a fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
- Πῦρpurnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Fire
But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
- πῦρpurnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: fire
When those present had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.
- πῦρpurnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a fire
John
one use
If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned.
- πῦρpurnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: fire
Acts
four uses
They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
- πυρὸςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of fire
I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
- πῦρpurnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: fire
After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
- πυρὸςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of fire
But Paul shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.
- πῦρpurnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: fire
Romans
one use
On the contrary, “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head.”
- πυρὸςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of fire
1 Corinthians
three uses
his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.
- πυρὶpurinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: fire
- πῦρpurnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: fire
If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.
- πυρός.¶purosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: fire
Hebrews
five uses
Now about the angels He says: “He makes His angels winds, His servants flames of fire.”
- πυρὸςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of fire
but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.
- πυρὸςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of fire
quenched the raging fire, and escaped the edge of the sword; who gained strength from weakness, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.
- πυρόςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of fire
For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;
- πυρὶpurinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: with fire
“For our God is a consuming fire.”
- πῦρpurnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: a fire
James
three uses
In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
- πῦρpurnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: fire
The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
- πῦρpurnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: a fire
Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and consume your flesh like fire. You have hoarded treasure in the last days.
- πῦρpurnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: fire
1 Peter
one use
so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
- πυρὸςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: fire
2 Peter
one use
And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
- πυρὶpurinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: for fire
Jude
two uses
In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
- πυρὸςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of fire
save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
- πυρὸςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: fire
Revelation
twenty-six uses
The hair of His head was white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a blazing fire.
- πυρὸςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of fire
To the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like a blazing fire and whose feet are like polished bronze.
- πυρὸςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of fire
I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
- πυρὸςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: fire
From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder. Before the throne burned seven torches of fire. These are the seven Spirits of God.
- πυρὸςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of fire
Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth; and there were peals of thunder, and rumblings, and flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
- πυρὸςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: fire
Then the first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, along with a third of the trees and all the green grass.
- πῦρpurnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: fire
Then the second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned to blood,
- πυρὶpurinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: with fire
Now the horses and riders in my vision looked like this: The riders had breastplates the colors of fire, sapphire, and sulfur. The heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths proceeded fire, smoke, and sulfur.
- πῦρpurnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: fire
A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke, and sulfur that proceeded from their mouths.
- πυρὸςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: fire
Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like pillars of fire.
- πυρόςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of fire
If anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouths and devours their enemies. In this way, anyone who wants to harm them must be killed.
- πῦρpurnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: fire
And the second beast performed great signs to cause even fire from heaven to come down to earth in the presence of the people.
- πῦρpurnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: fire
he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
- πυρὶpurinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: fire
Still another angel, with authority over the fire, came from the altar and called out in a loud voice to the angel with the sharp sickle, “Swing your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the vine of the earth, because its grapes are ripe.”
- πυρὸςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: fire
And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,
- πυρὶpurinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: with fire
Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire.
- πυρίpurinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: fire
And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
- πυρίpurinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: fire
Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”
- πυρὶpurinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: fire
He has eyes like blazing fire, and many royal crowns on His head. He has a name written on Him that only He Himself knows.
- πυρὸςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of fire
But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
- πυρὸςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of fire
And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them.
- πῦρpurnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: fire
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
- πυρὸςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of fire
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.
- πυρόςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of fire
- πυρόςpurosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of fire
And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
- πυρός.¶purosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: of fire
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
- πυρὶpurinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: with fire
Where it leads
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Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
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