Heat
καύσωνStrong’s G2742kausōn
Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament
In short
Kausōn is the Greek word usually translated “scorching heat”, “heat” and “burning heat”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.
“Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.”
Meaning
Usually translated “scorching heat”, “heat” and “burning heat”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- scorching heat 1
- heat 1
- burning heat 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 1
- Luke 1
- James 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Luke 12:55And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.
- James 1:11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Greek dictionary
καύσων kausōn · heat
καύσων, -ωνος, ὁ (καίω), [in LXX: Gen.31:40 א (חֹרֶב), Isa.49:10 (שָׁרָב), Job.27:21, Hos.12:1, (2), Hos.13:15, Jon.4.8, Jer.18:17, Eze.17:10 19:12 (קָדִים); Jer.51:1, From Theodotion Dan.3:67) Jdth.8:3, Sir.18:16 34:16 43:22 * ;] 1. burning heat (Ge, Isa (?), Jth, ll.with, Sir.18:16): Mat.20:12, Luk.12:55 (Jas.1:11, AV). 2. a hot wind from the east (Heb. קָדִים, see LXX, ll.with), the modern sirocco (see CGT on Amo.4:9): Jas.1:11 (RV, the scorching wind; cf. R, mg., the hot wind, Mt, Lk, ll.with).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “heat” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HEAT, noun
[Latin aestus, for haestus, or caestus.]
- heat as a cause of sensation, that is, the matter of heat is considered to be a subtil fluid, contained in a greater or less degree in all bodies.
- heat as a sensation, is the effect produced on the sentient organs of animals, by the passage of caloric, disengaged from surrounding bodies, to the organs.
- Hot air; hot weather; as the heat of the tropical climates.
- Any accumulation or concentration of the matter of heat or caloric; as the heat of the body; the heat of a furnace; a red heat; a white heat; a welding heat
All definitions and other forms of “heat”
- The state of being once heated or hot.
- A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
- A single effort in running; a course at a race.
- Redness of the face; flush.
- Animal excitement; violent action or agitation of the system.
- Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as the heat of battle.
- Violence; ardor; as the heat of party.
- Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation; as the heat of passion.
- Ardor; fervency; animation in thought or discourse.
- Fermentation.
HEAT, verb transitive
[Latin odi, osus, for hodi, hosus; L aestus, for haestus, heat tide; Gr. to burn, and the English haste and hoist are probably of the same family.]
- To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to be hot; as, to heat an oven or a furnace; to heat iron.
- To make feverish; as, to heat the blood.
- To warm with passion or desire; to excite; to rouse into action.
- To agitate the blood and spirits with action; to excite animal action.
HEAT, verb intransitive
To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or extrication of latent heat
- To grow warm or hot.
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.