κατακαύω
burn up, consume
Where this word appears
Every passage where κατακαύω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Chronicles 15:16 κατακαύω And he removed Maacha his mother from being priestess to Astarte; and he cut down the idol, and burnt it in the brook of Kedron.
- 2 Chronicles 34:5 κατακαύω And he burnt the bones of the priests upon the altars, and purged Juda and Jerusalem.
- Proverbs 6:27 κατακαύω Shall any one bind fire in his bosom, and not burn his garments?
- Proverbs 6:28 κατακαύω or will any one walk on coals of fire, and not burn his feet?
About this word
About this word
κατακαύω (katakaúō), “burn up, consume,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 4 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
