katakaiō · burn up

What it means

katakaiō (κατακαίω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “burn up”.

Completely.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To consume something with fire until nothing remains.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• was burned up ×3
• burn ×2
• burned up ×2
• he will burn up ×2
• are burned ×1
• were burning them ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Luke×1
• Acts×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Hebrews×1
• Revelation×5

• Matthew 3:12

  His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

• Matthew 13:30

  Let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the darnel first and tie it in bundles to burn it, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

• Luke 3:17

  His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

• Acts 19:19

  And a number of those who had practiced magic brought together their books and were burning them before everyone; and they counted up their value and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.

• 1 Corinthians 3:15

  If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but in this way, as through fire.

• Hebrews 13:11

  For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the Holy Place by the high priest as an offering for sin are burned outside the camp.

• Revelation 8:7

  And the first blew his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was thrown to the earth; and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees was burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

• Revelation 17:16

  And the ten horns that you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make her desolate and naked, and they will eat her flesh and burn her up with fire.

• Revelation 18:8

  Therefore in one day her plagues will come, death and grief and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who judged her.

And 2 more times.