κατασβέννυμι
quench, extinguish
Where this word appears
Every passage where κατασβέννυμι appears in the Greek Septuagint — 2 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.
- Proverbs 15:18 κατασβέννυμι A passionate man stirs up strife; but he that is slow to anger appeases even a rising one. A man slow to anger will extinguish quarrels; but an ungodly man rather stirs them up.
- Proverbs 28:2 κατασβέννυμι By reason of the sins of ungodly men quarrels arise; but a wise man will quell them.
About this word
About this word
κατασβέννυμι (katasbénnymi), “quench, extinguish,” 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 2 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 →
