Smoke
καπνόςStrong’s G2586kapnos
Appears in 11 verses of the New Testament
In short
Kapnos is the Greek word usually translated “smoke”. It appears in 11 verses of the New Testament.
“And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:”
Meaning
Usually translated “smoke”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- smoke 11
- of smoke 1
- with smoke 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 10
- Acts 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Revelation 8:4And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.
- Revelation 9:2And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
- Revelation 9:3And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
- Revelation 9:17And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
- Revelation 9:18By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
- Revelation 14:11And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Greek dictionary
καπνός kapnos · smoke
καπνός, -οῦ, ὁ [in LXX for עָשָׁן ;] smoke: Rev.8:4 9:2-3, 17-18 14:11 15:8 18:9, 18 19:3; ἀτμὶς καπνοῦ, Act.2:19 (LXX).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “smoke” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SMOKE, noun
- The exhalation, visble vapor or substance that escapes or is expelled in combustion from the substance burning.
- Vapor; water exhalations.
All definitions and other forms of “smoke”
SMOKE, verb intransitive
- To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage; in Scripture. Deuteronomy 29:20“The anger of the Lord and his jealousy snall smoke against that man” Deuteronomy 29:20
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- To smell or hunt out; to suspect.
- To use tobacco in a pipe or cigar, by kindling the tobacco, drawing the smoke into the mouth and puffing it out.
- TO suffer; to be punished.
SMOKE, verb transitive
- To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to scent, medicate or dry by smoke; as, to smoke infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.
- To smell out; to find out.
- TO sneer at; to ridicule to the face.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.