Strong G2586καπνός

smoke

Transliteration
kapnos
Pronunciation
kap-nos'
Morphology
Greek Noun (Masculine)

Definition

Of uncertain affinity; smoke: - smoke.

Detailed definition

καπνός, -οῦ, ὁ
[in LXX for עָשָׁן;]
smoke: Rev.8:4 9:2-3, 17-18 14:11 15:8 18:9, 18 19:3; ἀτμὶς καπνοῦ, Act.2:19 (LXX).†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G2586 appears in 11 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • smoke11

First verses

  1. Acts 2:19
    And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
  2. Revelation 8:4
    And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.
  3. Revelation 9:2
    And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
  4. Revelation 9:3
    And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
  5. Revelation 9:17
    And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
  6. Revelation 9:18
    By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
  7. Revelation 14:11
    And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
  8. Revelation 15:8
    And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.
  9. Revelation 18:9
    And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
  10. Revelation 18:18
    And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
  11. Revelation 19:3
    And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
καπνός, ὁ,
smoke, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.317, etc.; κνισάεντι καπνῷ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).66; καπνῷ πυρός 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 497)]; spray, καπνοῦ καὶ κύματος ἐκτὸς ἔεργε νῆα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.219 (hence _metaphorically_, 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 1.47): proverbial, καπνοῦ σκιά)], of things worth nothing, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 399, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 946; τἄλλ᾽ ἐγὼ καπνοῦ σκιᾶς οὐκ ἂν πριαίμην [prev. author] “Ant.” 1170; also περὶ καπνοῦ στενολεσχεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 320; κ. καὶ φλυαρία 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 581d: and in _plural_, γραμμάτων καπνοί)] learned trifles, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 954; καπνοὺς.. καὶ σκιάς 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 51)]; nickname of a man, [Refs ([prev. author] 122: _metaphorically_ also of envy, ὕδωρ καπνῷ φέρειν)] to throw water on the smoking embers, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.24: proverbial, ἐς αὐτὸ τὸ πῦρ ἐκ τοῦ καπνοῦ βιαζόμενος)] 'out of the frying-pan into the fire', [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nec.” 4, +others)]
II fumitory, Fumaria officinalis, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Anonymus Londinensis 36.58, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.109.)]