πυρόω
to burn
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives 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.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
3 distinct verses where G4448 appears in the Present tense, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
1 Corinthians 1 verse
2 Corinthians 1 verse
2 Peter 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, πυροω (pyróō) means “to burn.” First canonically at 1 Corinthians 7:9, it enters the text early. With 6 verses in 5 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Revelation (33% of all occurrences). From the same root come πυρ, πυρα and πυρρος. Dig into 6-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4448 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,476
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,476 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 2 verses 33%
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 17%
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 17%
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 6 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 50%
- Johannine 2 verses · 33%
- Revelation 2 verses · 33%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 17%
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×
- American Standard Version: Burn 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Refined 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Am 1×, Being set on fire 1×, Burn 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4448 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 G4448 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 G4448 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear 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 G4448 across 7 tagged occurrences — 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.
- to burn with fire, to set on fire, kindle
Word origin
Derived from πυρ (pŷr) (G4442) — fire.
From G4442 ; to kindle that is (passively) to be ignited glow (literally) be refined (by implication) or (figuratively) to be inflamed (with anger grief lust): - burn fiery be on fire try.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G4448 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πεπυρωμένα pepyrōména | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Ephesians 6:16 | 1 |
| πεπυρωμένον pepyrōménon | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Revelation 3:18 | 1 |
| πεπυρωμένῳ pepyrōménō | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Dative, Singular, Neuter | Revelation 1:15 | 1 |
| πυρούμενοι pyroúmenoi | Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 2 Peter 3:12 | 1 |
| πυροῦμαι pyroûmai | Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 1st person, Singular | 2 Corinthians 11:29 | 1 |
| πυροῦσθαι pyroûsthai | Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive | 1 Corinthians 7:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4448, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πυροω appears 16 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 14 verses in 7 books.
- 16
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 14
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Samuel 22:31 πυρόω
- Job 22:25 πυρόω
- Psalms 11:7 πυρόω
- Proverbs 10:20 πυρόω
- Isaiah 1:25 πυρόω
- Jeremiah 9:6 πυρόω
- Zechariah 13:9 πυρόω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4448) 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.
- 2 Samuel 22:31 πυρόω As for God, his way is perfect: The word of Yahweh is tried; He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
- Job 22:25 πυρόω The Almighty will be your treasure, Precious silver to you.
- Psalms 11:7 πυρόω For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.
- Psalms 16:3 πυρόω As for the saints who are in the earth, They are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
- Psalms 17:31 πυρόω
- Psalms 25:2 πυρόω My God, I have trusted in you, Don't let me be shamed. Don't let my enemies triumph over me.
- Psalms 65:10 πυρόω You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.
- Psalms 104:19 πυρόω He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.
- Psalms 118:140 πυρόω
- Proverbs 10:20 πυρόω The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.
- Proverbs 30:5 πυρόω "Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
- Isaiah 1:25 πυρόω And I will turn my hand on you, Thoroughly purge away your dross, And will take away all your tin.
- Jeremiah 9:6 πυρόω Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.
- Zechariah 13:9 πυρόω I will bring the third part into the fire, And will refine them as silver is refined, And will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' And they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4448) 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.
