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κατακαίω

to burn up

G2618 Strong's Greek
katakaíō Transliteration
/kat-ak-ah'-ee-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 13 appearances

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About this entry

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“to burn up” is the headline sense of the Greek verb κατακαιω (katakaíō). Scripture first uses it in Matthew 3:12. It appears 11 verses across 7 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Matthew. It shares a root with κατα, καθα and καθαιρεω. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
burn up
Modern gloss
to burn up
Strong's 1890 agrees
Strong's 1890 and current Thayer scholarship align on this entry's primary sense — a good signal that the gloss above is unambiguous and stable. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G2618 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 →

11
distinct verses
The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
7 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 3:12
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 3:12.
Revelation 18:8
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 18:8.
#863
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 863 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 4 · 36%
  • Acts 1 · 9%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 9%
  • General Epistles 2 · 18%
  • Revelation 3 · 27%

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 11 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 4 verses · 36%
  • Johannine 3 verses · 27%
  • Revelation 3 verses · 27%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 18%
  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 9%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 9%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 9%

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: Burn 2×, Was burnt up 2×
  • American Standard Version: Was burnt up 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Burned 2×, He will burn up 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: He will burn up 2×, Was burned up 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G2618 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Burn” 2×
  • “Was burnt up” 2×

Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G2618 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Was burnt up” 2×

Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G2618 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Burned” 2×
  • “He will burn up” 2×

Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G2618 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “He will burn up” 2×
  • “Was burned up” 2×

Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense 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.

  1. to burn up, consume by fire

Word origin

Derived from κατα (katá) (G2596) — down.

Part of speech: Verb

From G2596 and G2545 ; to burn down (to the ground) that is consume wholly : - burn (up utterly).

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 8 distinct written forms G2618 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
κατεκάη katekáē Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Revelation 8:7 3
κατακαήσεται katakaḗsetai Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 Corinthians 3:15 2
κατακαίεται katakaíetai Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 13:40 2
κατακαύσει katakaúsei Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 3:12 2
κατέκαιον katékaion Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Acts 19:19 1
κατακαυθήσεται katakauthḗsetai Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Revelation 18:8 1
κατακαύσουσιν katakaúsousin Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Revelation 17:16 1
κατακαῦσαι katakaûsai Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Matthew 13:30 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2618, 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

+103 more words share this root (not shown).

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 129 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word κατακαιω appears 85 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 80 verses in 17 books.

85
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
80
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
17 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 17 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2618) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 80. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2618) 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.

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