καυματίζω
to scorch
‘to scorch’ is one of 2 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.
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (50%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive 1 time (25%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2739 appears — 4 distinct verses across 3 books. 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Revelation 2 verses
- Revelation 16:8 καυματίσαι aor act inf The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.
- Revelation 16:9 ἐκαυματίσθησαν aor pass ind 3pl People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn't repent and give him glory.
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 καυματιζω centers on the idea of “to scorch.” With only 4 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. The word gravitates to Revelation (50%), then Matthew and Mark. First canonically at Matthew 13:6, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2739 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 2 verses 50%
- Matthew 1 verse 25%
- Mark 1 verse 25%
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 4 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 50%
- Johannine 2 verses · 50%
- Revelation 2 verses · 50%
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: Scorch 1×, They were scorched 1×, Was scorched 1×
- American Standard Version: It 1×, Scorch 1×, They were scorched 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Were scorched 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Was scorched 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2739 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2739 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2739 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2739 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 2 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 with heat, to scorch
- to be tortured with intense heat
Word origin
Derived from καυμα (kaûma) (G2738) — heat.
From G2738 ; to burn : - scorch.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G2739 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐκαυματίσθη ekaumatísthē | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 13:6 | 2 |
| καυματίσαι kaumatísai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Revelation 16:8 | 1 |
| ἐκαυματίσθησαν ekaumatísthēsan | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Revelation 16:9 | 1 |
