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Bible Lexicons

Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #440 - ἄνθραξ

Transliteration

ánthrax

Phonetics

anth'-rax

Origin

of uncertain derivation

Parts of Speech

Adjective

TDNT

None

Definition

Thayer's

a burning or live coal

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 100 ‑ אַגְמוֹן (ag‑mone'); 916 ‑ בְּדֹלַח (bed‑o'‑lakh); 1513 ‑ גֶּחֶל (ghe'‑khel, gah‑kheh'‑leth); 3956 ‑ לְשֹׁנָה (law‑shone', law‑shone', lesh‑o‑naw'); 5306 ‑ נֹפֶךְ (no'‑fek); 6352 ‑ פֶּחָם (peh‑khawm'); 7531 ‑ רִצְפָּה (rits‑paw'); 7565 ‑ רֶשֶׁף (reh'‑shef); 8658 ‑ תַּרְשִׁישׁ (tar‑sheesh');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

KJV (1)

Romans

NAS (1)

Romans

HCS (1)

Romans

BSB (1)

Romans

ESV (1)

Romans

WEB (1)

Romans

Verse Results

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

ἄνθραξ, ᾰκος, ὁ,

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.

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.

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

ἄνθραξ , -ακος , ὁ ,

[in LXX chiefly for H1513;]

coal, charcoal: . ἄ . πυρός , a burning coal, Romans 12:20.†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

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.

List of Word Forms

άνθρακα άνθρακά ανθρακας άνθρακας ἄνθρακας άνθρακες άνθρακος ανθράκων άνθραξ άνθραξι anthrakas ánthrakas

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