Strong G4092πίμπρημι

to swell up

Transliteration
pimprēmi
Pronunciation
pim'-pray-mee
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

A reduplicated and prolonged form of a primary word πρέω preō (which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses); to fire that is burn (figuratively and passively become inflamed with fever): - be (X should have) swollen.

Detailed definition

πίμπρημι
(in cl. prose, rare in the simple form), [in LXX: Num.5:21-22, 27 (צָבֶה) *;]
1. to blow, burn.

2. Later, to cause to swell; mid., of parts of the body, to become swollen (LXX): Act.28:6 (cf. ἐμπίπρημι).†
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In the Bible

Strong G4092 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • swollen1

First verses

  1. Acts 28:6
    Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
πίμπρημι,
present and imperfect non-thematic; imperative πίμπρη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 527, 974)]; participle nominative plural πιμπράντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.94)]; infinitive πιμπράναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 810, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 81, (ἐμ-) 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 11.5.6, etc.)]: imperfect ἐν-επίμπρην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.94)]; 3rd.pers. plural ἐνεπίμπρασαν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.5.32:)] —other tenses formed from πρήθω (which see): future πρήσω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 434, (ἐμ-) 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.242, etc.)]: aorist ἔπρησα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2.415, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 390, etc.)]; 3rd.pers. singular shortened ἔπρεσε [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 856:)]perfect πέπρηκα (ὑπο-, ἐμ-, κατα-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιστολαί” 17, 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 1.32, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 59.16)]:—middle, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 345:)]aorist ἐπρησάμην (ἐν-) [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 5.485)]:—passive, future πρησθήσομαι [LXX (LXX.Num.5.27)]; πεπρήσομαι (variant{πρήσομαι} (ἐμ-)) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.9)]: aorist ἐπρήσθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ γυναικείης φύσιος” 10, 4th c.BC: Amphis Comicus 30.10 (uncertain), (ἐν-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.55, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 469e)]: perfect (ἐμ-) πέπρησμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.144, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 2.5.5)]; but πέπρημαι is the Attic dialect form accusative to [Refs 5th c.BC+ (9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc. see at {σέσωται}, and ἐμ-πέπρημαι is found in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 36 codex Rav.; _imperative_ πέπρησο 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 80.)]—Collat. present ἐμ-πιπράω (see. ἐμπίμπρημι).—In the compound ἐμπίμπρημι (which see; more frequently in Prose) the second μ is sometimes dropped, as ἐμπίπρημ; but returns with the augment, as ἐνεπίμπρασα; compare πίμπλημι:—burn, burn up, γῆν.. πυρὶ πρῆσαι κατάκρας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 201, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 81; πρῆσαι δὲ πυρὸς.. θύρετρα 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.415, compare 9.242 (variant))]; without πυρί or πυρός, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 856; πρήσω πόλιν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 434, compare “Pers.” 810; δῶμα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 390, etc.:)] —passive, πίμπραμαι to be burnt, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 341)]; πέπρησο burn with fever, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 80, compare “SIG” 1180.10 (from Cnidus))]; of wounds, to be inflamed, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 306)] (but intransitive in active πίμπρησι δὲ χείλη [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. author] “Al.” 438): _metaphorically_, ἐπί τινι πίμπρασθαι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Jud.Voc.” 8; ἐπὶ Ῥωμαίοις 2nd c.AD: Appianus Historicus “Ἰταλική” 3.)]
II= πρήθω [Refs (1.1)], blow up, distend, in passive, [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ γυναικείης φύσιος” 10, “Flat.” 8, 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 477, NT.Act.28.6 (variant); ἐπέπρητο ὅλα “IG” 42(1).122.123 (Epid.))]:—active, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 522b28, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.32)]. (Cf. Russ. prèt' 'sweat', 'stew'.)