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Fire

πῦρStrong’s G4442

pur

Appears in 72 verses of the New Testament

In short

Pur is the Greek word usually translated “fire”. It appears in 72 verses of the New Testament.

“But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.”
2 Peter 3:7 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “fire”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • fire 42
  • of fire 17
  • with fire 9
  • a fire 3
  • in fire 1
  • for fire 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Revelation 25
  • Matthew 12
  • Mark 8
  • Luke 7
  • Hebrews 5
  • Acts 4

13 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 72 verses, by book
John 1
15:6
Romans 1
12:20
1 Corinthians 2
3:133:15
James 3
3:53:65:3
1 Peter 1
1:7
2 Peter 1
3:7
Jude 2
1:71:23
Greek dictionary

πῦρ pur · fire

πῦρ genitive, πυρός, τό, [in LXX chiefly and very frequently for אֵשׁ ;] fire: Mrk.9:22, Luk.3:9, Jhn.15:6, Act.2:10, 1Co.3:13, Jas.3:5, Rev.8:5, al; π. καὶ θεῖον, Luk.17:29; κατακαίειν (ἐν) π., Mat.13:40, Rev.17:16 18:8; καίεσθαι πυρί, Heb.12:18, Rev.8:8 21:8; φλὸξ πυρός, Act.7:30, 2Th.1:8, Heb.1:7, Rev.1:14 2:18 19:12; λαμπάδες πυρός, Rev.4:5; στῦλοι πυρός, Rev.10:1; ἄνθρακες πυρός, Rom.12:20 (LXX); γλῶσσαι ὡσεὶ πυρός, Act.2:3; δοκιμάζειν (πυροῦσθαι) διὰ πυρός, 1Pe.1:7, Rev.3:18; ὡς διὰ. π. (Lft., Notes, 193), 1Co.3:15. Of the fire of hell (cf. Dalman, Words,161): Mrk.9:48 (LXX); τὸ π. τὸ …

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

FIRE, noun

[The radical sense of fire is usually, to rush, to rage, to be violently agitated; and if this is the sense of fire in coincides with Latin furo. It may be from shining or consuming.]

  1. Heat and light emanating visibly, perceptibly and simultaneously from any body; caloric; the unknown cause of the sensation of heat and of the retrocession of the homogeneous particles of bodies from one another, producing expansion, and thus enlarging all their dimensions; one of the causes of magnetism, as evinced by Dr.
  2. The burning of fuel on a hearth, or in any other place.
  3. The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.
  4. Light; luster; splendor.
All definitions and other forms of “fire”
  1. Torture by burning.
  2. The instrument of punishment; or the punishment of the impenitent in another state.“Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?” Isaiah 33:14
  3. That which inflames or irritates the passions.
  4. Ardor of temper; violence of passion.
  5. Liveliness of imagination; vigor of fancy; intellectual activity; animation; force of sentiment or expression.
  6. The passion of love; ardent affection.
  7. Ardor; heat; as the fire of zeal or of love.
  8. Combustion; tumult; rage; contention.
  9. Trouble; affliction.“When thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burnt” Isaiah 43:2

FIRE, verb transitive

  1. To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.
  2. To inflame; to irritate the passions; as, to fire with anger or revenge.
  3. To animate; to give life or spirit; as, to fire the genius.
  4. To drive by fire [Little used.]
  5. To cause to explode; to discharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon.
  6. To cauterize; a term in farriery.

FIRE, verb intransitive

  1. To take fire; to be kindled.
  2. To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
  3. To discharge artillery or firearms.

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.