Greek adjective · G762
ἄσβεστος
asbestosas'-bes-tos
unquenchable
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ásbestos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G762is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G762
not extinguished, i.e. (by implication) perpetual
The King James renders it: not to be quenched, unquenchable.
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
asbestos is rendered "unquenchable". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 3:12His 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.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
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.”
Matthew 3:12ἀσβέστῳ.¶
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
- unquenchable3
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.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- ἀσβέστῳ.¶2
- ἄσβεστον1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular2A-DSN
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter singular1A-ASN
Matthew
one use
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.”
- ἀσβέστῳ.¶asbestoadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: unquenchable
Mark
one use
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.
- ἄσβεστονasbestonadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: unquenchable
Luke
one use
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.”
- ἀσβέστῳ.¶asbestoadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: unquenchable
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
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.