◄ 440. anthrax ►
Strong's Concordance anthrax: coal, charcoal Original Word: ἄνθραξ, ακος, ὁ Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: anthrax Phonetic Spelling: (anth'-rax) Short Definition: a coal Definition: coal, charcoal, a burning coal. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 440: ἄνθραξ ἄνθραξ, ἄνθρακος, ὁ, coal (also, from Thucydides and Aristophanes down, ἄνθραξ πυρός a coal of fire i. e. a burning or a live coal), live coal; Romans 12:20 ἄνθρακας πυρός σωρεύειν ἐπί τήν κεφαλήν τίνος, a proverbial expression, from Proverbs 25:22, signifying to call up, by the favors you confer on your enemy, the memory in him of the wrong he has done you (which shall pain him as if live coals were heaped on his head), that he may the more readily repent. The Arabians call things that cause very acute mental pain burning coals of the heart and fire in the liver; cf. Gesenius in Rosenmüller's Biblical-exeg. Repert. i., p. 140f (or in his Thesaurus i. 280; cf. also BB. DD. under the word ). Strong's Exhaustive Concordance coal of fire. Of uncertain derivation; a live coal -- coal of fire. Forms and Transliterations άνθρακα άνθρακά ανθρακας άνθρακας ἄνθρακας άνθρακες άνθρακος ανθράκων άνθραξ άνθραξι anthrakas ánthrakas Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 440 1 Occurrence ἄνθρακας — 1 Occ. Romans 12:20 N-AMP GRK: γὰρ ποιῶν ἄνθρακας πυρὸς σωρεύσεις NAS: BURNING COALS ON HIS HEAD. KJV: doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on INT: for doing coals of fire you will heap 1 Occurrence