ἐκκαίω
to burn
‘to burn’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G1572 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Romans 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek verb εκκαιω centers on the idea of “to burn.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Greek New Testament. The word gravitates to Romans (100%). It occurs only once, in Romans 1:27. Lexicons map it across 3 senses. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1572 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Burned 1×
- American Standard Version: Burned 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Burned 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Burned 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1572 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1572 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1572 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1572 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to burn out
- to set on fire
- to be kindled, to burn
Word origin
Derived from εκ (ek) (G1537) — from.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1572, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- εκβαλλω ekbállō G1544 to cast out
- εκβασις ékbasis G1545 exit
- εκγαμιζω ekgamízō G1547 to give in marriage
- εκγαμισκω ekgamískō G1548 to give in marriage
- εκγονον ékgonon G1549 offspring
- εκδαπαναω ekdapanáō G1550 to spend
- εκδεχομαι ekdéchomai G1551 to receive
- εκδηλος ékdēlos G1552 evident
- εκδημεω ekdēméō G1553 to depart
- εκδιδωμι ekdídōmi G1554 to give out
- εκδιηγεομαι ekdiēgéomai G1555 to relate
- εκδικος ékdikos G1558 without justice
- εκδιωκω ekdiṓkō G1559 to banish
- εκδοτος ékdotos G1560 delivered up
- εκδυω ekdýō G1562 to put off
- εκζητεω ekzētéō G1567 to seek out
- εκθαμβος ékthambos G1569 astonished
- εκθετος ékthetos G1570 exposed
- εκκαθαιρω ekkathaírō G1571 to cleanse
- εκκακεω ekkakéō G1573 to be exhausted
- εκκεντεω ekkentéō G1574 to pierce
- εκκλαω ekkláō G1575 to cut off
- εκκλειω ekkleíō G1576 to shut out
- εκκλησια ekklēsía G1577 assembly
+88 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 114 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εκκαιω appears 37 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 37 verses in 18 books.
- 37
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 37
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 18 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 18 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 22:5 ἐκκαίω
- Numbers 11:1 ἐκκαίω
- Deuteronomy 29:19 ἐκκαίω
- Judges 15:5 ἐκκαίω
- 2 Samuel 22:9 ἐκκαίω
- 1 Kings 20:21 ἐκκαίω
- 2 Kings 22:13 ἐκκαίω
- 2 Chronicles 34:21 ἐκκαίω
- Ezra 20:35 ἐκκαίω
- Job 3:17 ἐκκαίω
- Psalms 2:12 ἐκκαίω
- Proverbs 6:19 ἐκκαίω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1572) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 22:5 ἐκκαίω "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.
- Numbers 11:1 ἐκκαίω The people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of Yahweh: and when Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of Yahweh burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.
- Numbers 11:3 ἐκκαίω The name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Yahweh burnt among them.
- Numbers 21:30 ἐκκαίω We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even to Dibon, We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which [reaches] to Medeba.
- Deuteronomy 29:19 ἐκκαίω and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.
- Deuteronomy 32:22 ἐκκαίω For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, Sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
- Judges 15:5 ἐκκαίω When he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.
- Judges 15:14 ἐκκαίω When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.
- 2 Samuel 22:9 ἐκκαίω There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, Fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.
- 2 Samuel 22:13 ἐκκαίω At the brightness before him Coals of fire were kindled.
- 2 Samuel 24:1 ἐκκαίω Again the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.
- 1 Kings 20:21 ἐκκαίω The king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.
- 2 Kings 22:13 ἐκκαίω Go you, inquire of Yahweh for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us.
- 2 Kings 22:17 ἐκκαίω Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.
- 2 Chronicles 34:21 ἐκκαίω Go you, inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Yahweh, to do according to all that is written in this book.
- 2 Chronicles 34:25 ἐκκαίω Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out on this place, and it shall not be quenched.
- Ezra 20:35 ἐκκαίω
- Job 3:17 ἐκκαίω There the wicked cease from troubling; There the weary are at rest.
- Psalms 2:12 ἐκκαίω Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, For his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
- Psalms 38:4 ἐκκαίω For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
- Psalms 72:21 ἐκκαίω
- Psalms 77:38 ἐκκαίω
- Psalms 88:47 ἐκκαίω
- Psalms 105:18 ἐκκαίω They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
- Psalms 117:12 ἐκκαίω
- Proverbs 6:19 ἐκκαίω A false witness who utters lies, And he who sows discord among brothers.
- Proverbs 14:5 ἐκκαίω A truthful witness will not lie, But a false witness pours out lies.
- Proverbs 14:25 ἐκκαίω A truthful witness saves souls, But a false witness is deceitful.
- Isaiah 50:11 ἐκκαίω Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk you in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that you have kindled. This shall you have of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.
- Jeremiah 1:14 ἐκκαίω Then Yahweh said to me, Out of the north evil shall break forth on all the inhabitants of the land.
- Jeremiah 4:4 ἐκκαίω Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
- Jeremiah 15:14 ἐκκαίω I will make [them] to pass with your enemies into a land which you don't know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you.
- Jeremiah 51:6 ἐκκαίω Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.
- Ezekiel 21:4 ἐκκαίω Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
- Daniel 3:22 ἐκκαίω Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
- Obadiah 1:18 ἐκκαίω The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau." Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.
- Nahum 2:14 ἐκκαίω
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1572) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
