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Strong G2545καίω

to kindle/burn

Transliteration
kaiō
Pronunciation
kah'-yo
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

Apparently a primary verb; to set on fire that is kindle or (by implication) consume: - burn light.

Detailed definition

καίω
[in LXX for בָּעַר, יָקַד, שָׂרַף, etc.;]
1. to kindle, light: with accusative, λύχνον, Mat.5:15; pass., to be lighted, to burn: ptcp., Luk.12:35, Rev.4:5 8:10 19:20; πυρί Heb.12:18, Rev.8:8 21:8; metaphorically, Luk.24:32, Jhn.5:35.

2. to burn, destroy by fire: pass., Jhn.15:6, 1Co.13:3.†
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In the Bible

Strong G2545 appears in 12 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • burn10
  • burneth1
  • light1

First verses

  1. Matthew 5:15
    Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
  2. Luke 12:35
    Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
  3. Luke 24:32
    And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
  4. John 5:35
    He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
  5. John 15:6
    If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
  6. 1 Corinthians 13:3
    And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
  7. Hebrews 12:18
    For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
  8. Revelation 4:5
    And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
  9. Revelation 8:8
    And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
  10. Revelation 8:10
    And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
  11. Revelation 19:20
    And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
  12. Revelation 21:8
    But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
καίω,
Attic dialect κάω [ᾱ], imperfect ἔκαιον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.553, _Attic dialect_ ἔκᾱον)], Epic dialect καῖον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.343)]: future καύσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.4.21, (ἐπι-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 186.4, (κατα-) 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1218; also καύσομαι [prev. author] “Pl.” 1054)]: aorist 1 ἔκαυσα [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Pax” 1088, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.80 (bis), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 456b, etc.)]; Epic dialect ἔκηα (certain active and middle forms have κει- in codices of [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, see below), ἔκηα 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.40, +others)]; 3rd.pers. singular ἔκηε (ν) [Refs (22.170, 24.34, +others)]; unaugm. κῆεν [Refs (21.349)]; 3rd.pers. plural ἔκηαν (variant{ἔκειαν}) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.336; _imperative_ κεῖον 21.176)] codices; 1st pers. plural subjunctive κείομεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.333)] (κατα-), [Refs (377, 396 (better attested than κήομεν); _optative_ κήαι, κήαιεν, 21.336, 24.38)]; infinitive κῆαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.97 (variant{κεῖαι}), κατα-κῆαι 10.533, 11.46, κακκῆαι [prev. work] 74 (variant{κακκεῖαι}))]; participle κείαντες [Refs (9.231, 13.26)], Attic dialect κέαντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 849, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 757, (ἐκ-) 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 97, ἐκκέας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1133 (Lyric poetry), ἐγκέαντι “IG” 12.374.96,261:)]perfect κέκαυκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ ((κατα-, προσ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.5.37, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 124.3:)] —middle, aorist 1 ἐκαυσάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ ((ἀν-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.202, 8.19)]; Epic dialect κείαντο, κειάμενοι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.88, 234; κειάμενος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.2, 23.51)]:—passive, future καυθήσομαι [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ γυναικείης φύσιος” 107, (κατα-, ἐκ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1505, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 362a; late κᾰήσομαι NT.1Cor.3.15)]: aorist 1 ἐκαύθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 4.4, “Int.” 28, (κατ-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.19, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.74)]; Epic dialect and Ionic dialectaorist 2 ἐκάην [ᾰ] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.212 (κατ-), 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.13, (δί-) 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τόπων τῶν κατὰ ἄνθρωπον” 40, (κατ-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.180)]; infinitive καήμεναι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.210, καῆναι 1st c.BC: Parthenius Mythographus 9.8)]: perfect κέκαυμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 457, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.34, etc., κέκαυσμαι 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐντὸς παθῶν” 28)]; infinitive κεκαῦσθαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 343a9. (From κᾰϝ-yw.))]
I kindle, πυρὰ πολλά [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.77; πῦρ κείαντες 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.231; πῦρ κῆαι 15.97, etc.:)] —middle, πῦρ κείαντο they lighted them a fire, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.88, compare 234, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.2)]:—passive, to be lighted, burn, πυραὶ νεκύων καίοντο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.52; θεείου καιομένοιο 8.135; καιομένοιο πυρός 19.376, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.86, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1372, etc.; φῶς πυρὸς καόμενον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 514b)]; αἱ φλόγες αἱ καιόμεναι.. περὶ τὸν οὐρανόν the meteors which blaze, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 341b2)]; of ore, to be smelted, [Refs ([prev. author] “HA” 552b10.)]
II set on fire, burn, μηρία, ὀστέα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.553, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 557; νεκρούς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.343; δένδρεα [prev. work] 338)]:—passive, νηυσὶν καιομένῃσιν [Refs (9.602.)]
II.2 make hot, of the sun, ἀνθρώπους [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.104: _absolutely_, [prev. passage], 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 413b)]; [Χείμαρρος] ἠελίῳ κεκαυμένος smelted, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (Anthologia Graeca 9.277 (1st c.AD: Antiphilus Epigrammaticus).)]
II.3 of extreme cold, ἡ Χιὼν καίει τῶν κυνῶν τὰς ῥῖνας [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 8.2, compare 6.26 (_passive_))]; κάειν λέγεται.. τὸ ψυχρόν, οὐχ ὡς τὸ θερμόν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 382b8.)]
II.4 passive, of fever-heat, τὰ ἐντὸς ἐκάετο [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49)]: metaphorically, of passion, especially of love, to be on fire, ἐν φρασὶ καιομένα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.219; κάομαι τὴν καρδίαν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 9; ἔρως.. ὕβρει καόμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 783a)]; καίεσθαί τινος (i.e. ἔρωτι) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Hermesianax Elegiacus 7.37, 2nd c.AD(?): Charito Scriptor Eroticus 4.6, compare 1st c.BC: Parthenius Mythographus 14.2)]; also καομένη Ἑλλάς Greece being in a fever of excitement, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 33.7.)]
II.5 suffer from inflammation, ἐκαύθη ἔσω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 4.20, compare 4.)]
III burn and destroy (in war), τέμνειν καὶ κ., κ. καὶ πορθεῖν, waste with fire and sword, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.2.15, 6.5.27.)]
IV of surgeons, cauterize, ὤμους [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 11)]:—in passive, [Refs ([prev. author] “Aph.” 6.60: _absolutely_, τέμνειν καὶ κάειν)] to use knife and cautery, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 480c, 521e, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.8.18, etc.: rarely reversed, κέαντες ἢ τεμόντες 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 849.)]
V burn or bake pottery, κανθάρους uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Phrynichus Comicus 15.)]