φλέγω
burn, blaze
Where this word appears
Every passage where φλέγω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 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.
- Exodus 24:17 φλέγω And the appearance of the glory of the Lord was as burning fire on the top of the mountain, before the children of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 32:22 φλέγω For a fire has been kindled out of my wrath, it shall burn to hell below; it shall devour the land, and the fruits of it; it shall set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
- Psalms 103:4 φλέγω Who makes his angels spirits, and his ministers a flaming fire.
- Proverbs 29:1 φλέγω A reprover is better than a stiff-necked man: for when the latter is suddenly set on fire, there shall be no remedy.
- Jeremiah 20:9 φλέγω Then I said, I will by no means name the name of the Lord, and I will no more at all speak in his name. But it was a burning fire flaming in my bones, and I am utterly weakened on all sides, and can’t bear up.
- Jeremiah 23:29 φλέγω Behold, are not my words as fire? says the Lord; and as an axe cutting the rock?
- Malachi 3:19 φλέγω
About this word
About this word
φλέγω (phlégō), “burn, blaze,” 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 7 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 →
