ἄνθραξ
burning coal
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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G440 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.
At its core, ανθραξ (ánthrax) means “burning coal.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in Romans (100% of all occurrences). Scripture uses it exactly once, at Romans 12:20. From the same root come ανθρακια. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G440 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: Coals 1×
- American Standard Version: Coals 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Coals 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Coals 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G440 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G440 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G440 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G440 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- a burning or live coal
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain derivation
Of uncertain derivation; a live coal : - coal of fire.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G440, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ανθραξ appears 27 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 27 verses in 9 books.
- 27
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 27
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:12 ἄνθραξ
- Exodus 28:18 ἄνθραξ
- Leviticus 16:12 ἄνθραξ
- 2 Samuel 14:7 ἄνθραξ
- Job 41:12 ἄνθραξ
- Psalms 17:9 ἄνθραξ
- Proverbs 6:28 ἄνθραξ
- Isaiah 5:24 ἄνθραξ
- Ezekiel 1:13 ἄνθραξ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G440) 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.
- Genesis 2:12 ἄνθραξ and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.
- Exodus 28:18 ἄνθραξ and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
- Exodus 36:18 ἄνθραξ He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.
- Leviticus 16:12 ἄνθραξ He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:
- 2 Samuel 14:7 ἄνθραξ Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.
- 2 Samuel 22:9 ἄνθραξ There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, Fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.
- 2 Samuel 22:13 ἄνθραξ At the brightness before him Coals of fire were kindled.
- Job 41:12 ἄνθραξ "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.
- Job 41:13 ἄνθραξ Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?
- Psalms 17:9 ἄνθραξ From the wicked who oppress me, My deadly enemies, who surround me.
- Psalms 17:13 ἄνθραξ Arise, Yahweh, Confront him, cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;
- Psalms 119:4 ἄνθραξ You have commanded your precepts, That we should fully obey them.
- Psalms 139:11 ἄνθραξ If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; The light around me will be night;"
- Proverbs 6:28 ἄνθραξ Or can one walk on hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?
- Proverbs 25:22 ἄνθραξ For you will heap coals of fire on his head, And Yahweh will reward you.
- Proverbs 26:21 ἄνθραξ As coals are to hot embers, And wood to fire, So is a contentious man to kindling strife.
- Isaiah 5:24 ἄνθραξ Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, And as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, So their root shall be as rottenness, And their blossom shall go up as dust; Because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 6:6 ἄνθραξ Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar.
- Isaiah 44:19 ἄνθραξ None calls to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
- Isaiah 47:14 ἄνθραξ Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
- Isaiah 54:11 ἄνθραξ you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
- Isaiah 54:16 ἄνθραξ Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
- Ezekiel 1:13 ἄνθραξ As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: [the fire] went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
- Ezekiel 10:2 ἄνθραξ He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling [wheels], even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched.
- Ezekiel 10:9 ἄνθραξ I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone.
- Ezekiel 24:11 ἄνθραξ Then set it empty on the coals of it, that it may be hot, and the brass of it may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the rust of it may be consumed.
- Ezekiel 28:13 ἄνθραξ You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G440) 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.
