σβέννυμι
to quench
‘to quench’ 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).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- 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.
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4570 appears in the Book of Hebrews — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Hebrews
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 σβεννυμι centers on the idea of “to quench.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 12:20. It appears 6 verses across 5 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Matthew (33%), then Mark and Ephesians. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 6-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4570 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 →
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.
- Gospels 3 verses · 50%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 33%
- Hebrews 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: Quenched 4×, Is 3×, Quench 3×
- American Standard Version: Quench 3×, Quenched 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Are going out 1×, Do not extinguish 1×, Extinguish 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Is 3×, Quenched 3×, Quench 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4570 across 12 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4570 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 G4570 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4570 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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.
- of fire or things on fire
- metaph. to quench, to suppress, stifle
Word origin
Origin: a prolonged form of an apparently primary verb
A prolonged form of an apparently primary verb; to extinguish (literally or figuratively): - go out quench.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G4570 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σβέννυνται sbénnyntai | Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 25:8 | 1 |
| σβέννυται sbénnytai | Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Mark 9:48 | 1 |
| σβέννυτε sbénnyte | Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | 1 Thessalonians 5:19 | 1 |
| σβέσαι sbésai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive | Ephesians 6:16 | 1 |
| σβέσει sbései | Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 12:20 | 1 |
| ἔσβεσαν ésbesan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Hebrews 11:34 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word σβεννυμι appears 35 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 34 verses in 11 books.
- 35
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 34
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Leviticus 6:2 σβέννυμι
- 2 Samuel 14:7 σβέννυμι
- 2 Kings 22:17 σβέννυμι
- 2 Chronicles 29:7 σβέννυμι
- Job 4:10 σβέννυμι
- Proverbs 10:7 σβέννυμι
- Song of Solomon 8:7 σβέννυμι
- Isaiah 1:31 σβέννυμι
- Jeremiah 4:4 σβέννυμι
- Ezekiel 21:3 σβέννυμι
- Amos 5:6 σβέννυμι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4570) 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.
- Leviticus 6:2 σβέννυμι "If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,
- Leviticus 6:5 σβέννυμι or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his being found guilty.
- Leviticus 6:6 σβέννυμι He shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without blemish from the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest.
- 2 Samuel 14:7 σβέννυμι 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 21:17 σβέννυμι But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you don't quench the lamp of Israel.
- 2 Kings 22:17 σβέννυμι 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 29:7 σβέννυμι Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 34:25 σβέννυμι 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.
- Job 4:10 σβέννυμι The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, The teeth of the young lions, are broken.
- Job 16:15 σβέννυμι I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, And have thrust my horn in the dust.
- Job 18:5 σβέννυμι "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.
- Job 18:6 σβέννυμι The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.
- Job 21:17 σβέννυμι "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes on them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger?
- Job 30:8 σβέννυμι They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.
- Job 34:26 σβέννυμι He strikes them as wicked men In the open sight of others;
- Job 40:12 σβέννυμι Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
- Proverbs 10:7 σβέννυμι The memory of the righteous is blessed, But the name of the wicked will rot.
- Proverbs 13:9 σβέννυμι The light of the righteous shines brightly, But the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
- Proverbs 20:9 σβέννυμι Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"
- Proverbs 24:20 σβέννυμι For there will be no reward to the evil man; And the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.
- Song of Solomon 8:7 σβέννυμι Many waters can't quench love, Neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, He would be utterly scorned. Friends
- Isaiah 1:31 σβέννυμι The strong will be like tinder, And his work like a spark. They will both burn together, And no one will quench them."
- Isaiah 34:10 σβέννυμι It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
- Isaiah 42:3 σβέννυμι A bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he will bring forth justice in truth.
- Isaiah 43:17 σβέννυμι who brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched as a wick):
- Isaiah 66:24 σβέννυμι They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh.
- Jeremiah 4:4 σβέννυμι 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 7:20 σβέννυμι Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
- Jeremiah 17:27 σβέννυμι But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates of it, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
- Jeremiah 21:12 σβέννυμι House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
- Ezekiel 21:3 σβέννυμι and tell the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
- Ezekiel 21:4 σβέννυμι 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:
- Ezekiel 32:7 σβέννυμι When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars of it dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
- Amos 5:6 σβέννυμι Seek Yahweh, and you will live; Lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, And it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4570) 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.
