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Strong's #440 - ἄνθραξ
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- a burning or live coal
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ἄνθραξ, ᾰκος, ὁ,
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1.charcoal, Sotad.Com. 1.12: mostly in pl. ἄνθρακες Ar. Ach. 34, 332, Nu. 97; ἄ. Παρνήθιοι Id. Ach. 348; ὀπτωμέναις κόγχαισιν ἐπί τῶν ἀ. Id. Fr. 68; ἄνθρακας ἡμμένους Th. 4.100, etc.; their vapour produced stupor, Arist. Sens. 444b31: prov., ἄνθρακας κατεσθίειν, of a glutton, Euphro 10.14, cf. Ion Trag. 29.
2. coal, οἷς καὶ οἱ χαλκεῖς χρῶνται Thphr. Lap. 16, PHolm. 2.33; ἐπὶ ἀνθράκων μαλακῶν on a slow fire, Xenocr. 16.
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1. a precious stone of dark-red colour, including the carbuncle, ruby, and garnet (Adams), Arist. Mete. 387b18, LXX Exodus 28:18, Phylarch. 41, etc.
2. hence, carbuncle, malignant pustule (acc. to some, small-pox), Hp. Epid. 3.7, Gal. 7.719, al.
III = ἰσάτις, woad, PHolm. 18.34, al.
ἄνθραξ, ἄνθρακος, ὁ, coal (also, from Thucydides and Aristophanes down, ἄνθραξ πυρός a coal of fire i. e. a burning or a live coal), live coal; Romans 12:20 ἄνθρακας πυρός σωρεύειν ἐπί τήν κεφαλήν τίνος, a proverbial expression, from Proverbs 25:22, signifying to call up, by the favors you confer on your enemy, the memory in him of the wrong he has done you (which shall pain him as if live coals were heaped on his head), that he may the more readily repent. The Arabians call things that cause very acute mental pain burning coals of the heart and fire in the liver; cf. Gesenius in Rosenmüller's Biblical-exeg. Repert. i., p. 140f (or in his Thesaurus i. 280; cf. also BB. DD. under the word
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ἄνθραξ , -ακος , ὁ ,
[in LXX chiefly for H1513;]
coal, charcoal: . ἄ . πυρός , a burning coal, Romans 12:20.†
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P Petr III. 107(d).28, P Lond 1159.59 (A.D. 145–7) (= III. p. 113) ἐπὶ ξυλ καὶ ἀνθράκων καὶ φαν ω καὶ λαμπά δ, P Fay 348 (ii/iii A.D.) ἄνθρακο (ς). The word also occurs ter in Michel 594 (B.C. 279), a long inscription from Delos containing the receipts and expenses of the ἱεροποιοί. It is MGr ἄνθρακας.
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