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Strong G2618κατακαίω

to burn

Transliteration
katakaiō
Pronunciation
kat-ak-ah'ee-o
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G2596 and G2545; to burn down (to the ground) that is consume wholly: - burn (up utterly).

Detailed definition

κατα-καίω
[in LXX chiefly for שָׂרַף; in Exo.3:2 (אָכַל pu.), distinguished from καίω;]
to burn up, burn completely: with accusative of thing(s), Mat.13:30 Act.19:19; pass., 1Co.3:15, Heb.13:11, 2Pe.3:10, Rev.8:7; before πυρί Mat.3:12 13:40, Luk.3:17 (cf. Exo.29:14, al.); ἐν πυρί (Deu.9:21, al.): Rev.17:16 18:8.†
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In the Bible

Strong G2618 appears in 11 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • burn10
  • burnt1

First verses

  1. Matthew 3:12
    Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
  2. Matthew 13:30
    Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
  3. Matthew 13:40
    As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
  4. Luke 3:17
    Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
  5. Acts 19:19
    Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
  6. 1 Corinthians 3:15
    If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
  7. Hebrews 13:11
    For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
  8. 2 Peter 3:10
    But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
  9. Revelation 8:7
    The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
  10. Revelation 17:16
    And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
  11. Revelation 18:8
    Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
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κατακαίω,
Attic dialect κατακάω [ᾱ], Epic dialect infinitive κατακαιέμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.408)]: future -καύσω[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1218)]: aorist κατέκαυσα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.25)]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular κατέκηε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.418)]; 1st pers. plural subjunctive κατακήομεν (variant{-κείομεν}) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.333)]; infinitive κατακῆαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.46, κακκῆαι [prev. work] 74 (variant{-κεῖαι}))]: perfect -κέκαυκα[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.5.37, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “Academicorum Index” p.69M.)]:—passive, future -καυθήσομαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1505)], -καήσομαι [NT (NT.1Cor.3.15:)]aorist κατεκαύθην (the Attic dialect form) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.69, 6.101, κατεκάην [prev. author] 1.51, 2.107)]; Laconian dialect infinitive -καῆμεν[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lycurgus” 20)]; -εκαύσθην [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Chron.Lind.” 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 41)]: perfect -κέκαυμαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.108)]:—burn completely, in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] of sacrifices and dead bodies, κατακήομεν αὐτούς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.333; μιν κατέκηε σὺν ἔντεσι 6.418)]; κ. τοὺς μάντιας burn them alive, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.69; ζῶντα κατακαυθῆναι [prev. author] 1.86, compare 2.107)]; of cities and houses, etc., κατὰ μὲν ἔκαυσαν.. πόλιν [Refs ([prev. author] 8.33; κατεκαίετο ὁ ἐν Δελφοῖσι νηός [prev. author] 1.50)]; [οἰκίη] κατεκάη [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 4.79; κατακαυθέντων ἱρῶν [prev. author] 6.101; τείχη -κεκαυμένα 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator)] [same place]; γῆ κατακεκαυμένη burnt earth, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 358a14)]; Κατακεκαυμένη, name of the upper valley of the Hermus, in Lydia, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 13.4.11, compare κατακεκαυμενίτης)]; of the fingers, to be burnt with hot food, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 4.15; also κ. τὴν κοιλίαν “PMagd.” 33.4 (3rd c.BC).)]
2 of hot winds, parch, τὰ ἐκ τῆς γῆς [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PHib.” 1.27.73 (3rd c.BC), +others)]
3 metaphorically, ὁ ἔρως ἐμέ.. κατακέκαυκεν [Refs (“Lyrica Alexandrina Adespota” 8)] (c):—passive, τὰ στόματα -κάεται ἐπὶ τέχνην [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 33.6; -καίομαι καταλελειμμένη “Lyrica Alexandrina Adespota” 1.24.)]
II passive, of fire, κατὰ πῦρ ἐκάη had burnt down, burnt out, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.212.)]