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To burn

κατακαίωStrong’s G2618

katakaiō

Appears in 10 verses of the New Testament

In short

Katakaiō is the Greek word usually translated “burn up”, “burn” and “is burned up”. It appears in 10 verses of the New Testament.

“Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Matthew 3:12 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “burn up”, “burn” and “is burned up”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • he will burn up 2
  • to burn 1
  • is burned up 1
  • were burning 1
  • will be burned up 1
  • are burned 1
  • were burned up 1
  • was burned up 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Matthew 3
  • Revelation 3
  • Luke 1
  • Acts 1
  • 1 Corinthians 1
  • Hebrews 1

6 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 10 verses, by book
Luke 1
3:17
Acts 1
19:19
1 Corinthians 1
3:15
Hebrews 1
13:11
Revelation 3
8:717:1618:8
Greek dictionary

κατακαίω katakaiō · to burn

κατα-καίω [in LXX chiefly for שָׂרַף; in Exo.3:2 (אָכַל pu.), distinguished from καίω ;] to burn up, burn completely: with accusative of thing(s), Mat.13:30 Act.19:19; pass., 1Co.3:15, Heb.13:11, 2Pe.3:10, Rev.8:7; before πυρί Mat.3:12 13:40, Luk.3:17 (cf. Exo.29:14, al.); ἐν πυρί (Deu.9:21, al.): Rev.17:16 18:8.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “burn” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BURN, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive burned or burnt. [Latin pruna, and perhaps, furnus, fornaz, a furnace. The primary sense is, to rage, to act with violent excitement.]

  1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; frequently with up; as, to burn up wood.
  2. To expel the volatile parts and reduce to charcoal by fire; as, to burn wood into coal.
  3. To cleanse of soot by burning; to inflame; as, to burn a chimney; an extensive use of the word.
  4. To harden in the fire; to bake or harden by heat; as, to burn bricks or a brick kiln.
All definitions and other forms of “burn”
  1. To scorch; to affect by heat; as, to burn the clothes or the legs by the fire; to burn meat or bread in cookery.
  2. To injure by fire; to affect the flesh by heat.
  3. To dry up or dissipate; with up; as, to burn up tears.
  4. To dry excessively; to cause to wither by heat; as, the sun burns the grass or plants.
  5. To heat or inflame; to affect with excessive stimulus; as, ardent spirits burn the stomach.
  6. To affect with heat in cookery, so as to give the food a disagreeable taste.
  7. To calcine with heat or fire; to expel the volatile matter from substances, so that they are easily pulverized; as, to burn oyster shells, or lime-stone.
  8. To affect with excess of heat; as, the fever burns a patient.
  9. To subject to the action of fire; to heat or dry; as, to burn colors.

BURN, verb intransitive

To be on fire; to flame; as, the mount burned with fire.

  1. To shine; to sparkle.
  2. To be inflamed with passion or desire; as, to burn with anger or love.
  3. To act with destructive violence, as fire.
  4. To be in commotion; to rage with destructive violence.
  5. To be heated; to be in a glow; as, the face burns.
  6. To be affected with a sensation of heat, pain or acidity; as, the heart burns.
  7. To feel excess of heat; as, the flesh burns by a fire; a patient burns with a fever.

BURN, noun

A hurt or injury of the flesh caused by the action of fire.

  1. The operation of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn

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.