pyr · fire

What it means

pyr (πῦρ) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “fire”.

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. The flames that burn and give light; a frequent image of God's judgment.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

Fire. In the literal sense, what is kindled and burns; in the Bible it is also an image of God's judgment, of his presence and of what purifies. Of the same group are πυρόω (burn) and πυρά (a fire, a pile of burning wood).

• Fire into which what is useless is thrown Matthew 3:10Matthew 7:19
• Immersing “in the Holy Spirit and fire” Luke 3:16
• A flame of fire in the bush Acts 7:30
• The fire of judgment: fiery Gehenna, the eternal fire Matthew 5:22Matthew 25:41Mark 9:48
• Figurative: “the tongue is a fire” James 3:6Luke 12:49

How we translate it

“Fire” 69 times, also in the figurative sense, so that the reader recognizes the same image in every passage; “fiery” 2, where English turns the Greek genitive into an adjective (“fiery Gehenna”, Matthew 5:22). Elsewhere the construction is kept: “the lake of fire” (Revelation 20:10).

How it is translated

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

• fire ×69
• fiery ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×12
• Mark×4
• Luke×7
• John×1
• Acts×4
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×3
• 2 Thessalonians×1
• Hebrews×5
• James×3
• 1 Peter×1
• 2 Peter×1
• Jude×2
• Revelation×26

• Matthew 3:10

  And already the ax is laid at the root of the trees; so every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

• Matthew 3:11

  I immerse you in water for change of mind, but the one who comes after me is stronger than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry; he will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and fire.

• 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 5:22

  But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to the judgment; and whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘Fool,’ will be liable to fiery Gehenna.

• Matthew 7:19

  Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

• Matthew 13:40

  So just as the darnel is gathered and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age.

• Matthew 13:42

  and they will throw them into the furnace of fire; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

• Matthew 13:50

  and they will throw them into the furnace of fire; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

• Matthew 17:15

  and saying, “Lord, have mercy on my son, because he is moonstruck and suffers terribly; for often he falls into the fire and often into the water.

• Matthew 18:8

  And if your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter into life maimed or lame than having two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.

• Matthew 18:9

  And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter into life with one eye than having two eyes to be thrown into fiery Gehenna.

• Matthew 25:41

  Then he will say also to those at the left, ‘Go from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

• Mark 9:22

  and often it has thrown him both into fire and into water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us!”

• Mark 9:43

  And if your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life maimed than having the two hands to go away into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire.

• Mark 9:48

  where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.

• Mark 9:49

  For everyone will be salted with fire.

• Luke 3:9

  And even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees; so every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

• Luke 3:16

  John answered, saying to all, “I immerse you in water; but the one stronger than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie; he will immerse you in the Holy Spirit and fire.

• 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.”

• Luke 9:54

  And when the disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”

• Luke 12:49

  I came to cast fire upon the earth, and how I wish that it were already kindled!

• Luke 17:29

  but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from heaven and destroyed them all.

• Luke 22:55

  And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter was sitting among them.

• John 15:6

  If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like the branch and withers; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

• Acts 2:3

  And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, being distributed, and one rested on each of them.

• Acts 2:19

  And I will give wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below: blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

• Acts 7:30

  And when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

• Acts 28:5

  However, he shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no harm.

• Romans 12:20

  But if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for by doing this you will heap coals of fire on his head.

• 1 Corinthians 3:13

  each one’s work will become evident; for the Day will make it clear, because it is revealed by fire, and the fire itself will test what sort of work each one’s is.

• 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.

• 2 Thessalonians 1:8

  in a flame of fire, inflicting punishment on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the good news of our Lord Jesus.

• Hebrews 1:7

  And of the angels he says: He who makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire.

• Hebrews 10:27

  but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

• Hebrews 11:34

  quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put to flight the armies of foreigners.

• Hebrews 12:18

  For you have not drawn near to what can be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and a storm,

• Hebrews 12:29

  for indeed our God is a consuming fire.

• James 3:5

  So also the tongue is a small member and boasts of great things. See how great a forest so small a fire sets ablaze.

• James 3:6

  And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body and setting on fire the wheel of existence, and is itself set on fire by Gehenna.

• James 5:3

  Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days.

And 31 more times.