Greek

Fire

πυράStrong’s G4443

pura

Appears in 2 verses of the New Testament

In short

Pura is the Greek word usually translated “fire”. It appears in 2 verses of the New Testament.

“And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.”

Acts 28:2 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

a fire 1
fire 1

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

Where it's used most

Acts 2

1 book in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Acts 28:3And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

Greek dictionary

πυρά pura · fire

πυρά, -ᾶς, ἡ (πῦρ) [in LXX: Jdth.7:5, Wis.17:6, al. ;] a fire: Act.28:2-3.† (AS)

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.]

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.
The burning of fuel on a hearth, or in any other place.
The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.
Light; luster; splendor.

All definitions and other forms of “fire”

Torture by burning.
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
That which inflames or irritates the passions.
Ardor of temper; violence of passion.
Liveliness of imagination; vigor of fancy; intellectual activity; animation; force of sentiment or expression.
The passion of love; ardent affection.
Ardor; heat; as the fire of zeal or of love.
Combustion; tumult; rage; contention.
Trouble; affliction.“When thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burnt” Isaiah 43:2

FIRE, verb transitive

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

FIRE, verb intransitive

To take fire; to be kindled.
To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
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.