Strong G4570σβέννυμι
to extinguish
- Transliteration
- sbennumi
- Pronunciation
- sben'-noo-mee
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
A prolonged form of an apparently primary verb; to extinguish (literally or figuratively): - go out quench.
Detailed definition
σβέννυμι
[in LXX chiefly for כָּבָה;]
of fire or things on fire, to quench: with accusative, Mat.12:20, Eph.6:16, Heb.11:34; pass., Mat.25:8, Mrk.9:48, [44, 46]. Metaphorical (cf. Sng.8:7, 4Ma.16:4): τὸ πνεῦμα, 1Th.5:19.†
ζβέννυμι, for σβ-, 1Th.5:19 T (see WH, Notes, 148).†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for כָּבָה;]
of fire or things on fire, to quench: with accusative, Mat.12:20, Eph.6:16, Heb.11:34; pass., Mat.25:8, Mrk.9:48, [44, 46]. Metaphorical (cf. Sng.8:7, 4Ma.16:4): τὸ πνεῦμα, 1Th.5:19.†
ζβέννυμι, for σβ-, 1Th.5:19 T (see WH, Notes, 148).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4570 appears in 8 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- quench7
- be3
- go1
- shall1
First verses
- Matthew 12:20A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.
- Matthew 25:8And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
- Mark 9:44Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
- Mark 9:46Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
- Mark 9:48Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
- Ephesians 6:16Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:19Quench not the Spirit.
- Hebrews 11:34Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
σβέννῡμι,
[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.66, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 835e, etc.)]; σβεννύω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.5, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 54, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Igne” 19, etc.)]: imperfect ἐσβέννυον [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 4.21.4:)]future σβέσω App [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“BC” 2.68, (κατα-) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 958, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 633)]; Epic dialect σβέσσω Oracle texts cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.77, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 23.26)]: aorist ἔσβεσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.293 (tmesis), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1057, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 778 (Lyric poetry))]; Epic dialect infinitive σβέσσαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.621)]; Ionic dialect infinitive κατα-ς βῶσαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 5.39:)]perfect and aorist 2, see below:—middle, future σβήσομαι (ἀπο-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 805c)]: aorist σβέσαντο [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 1.795)]:—passive, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 590)]: future σβεσθήσομαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 7.17)]: aorist ἐσβέσθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.” (“Sp.”), (κατ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.3.8)]; Epic dialect συν-έσβετο [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 2.477, etc.)]: perfect ἔσβεσμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 21.1, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 9.54, etc., (ἀπ-) 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐντὸς παθῶν” 43)]:—besides these, aorist 2 and perfect and pluperfect active are used intransitive, ἔσβην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.471, (ἀπ-) 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 971, (κατ-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.5)]; imperative σβῆτε (transitive) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus in “Stud.Ital.” 10.123)]; participle ἀπο-σβείς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 4.31:)]perfect ἔσβηκα (ἀπ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.13, (κατ-) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 888:)]pluperfect ἐσβήκει (ἀπ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 218b)]:—quench, put out, used by [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus in the literal sense only in _compound_ κατα-σβέννυμι (which see))]; σ. τὸ καιόμενον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.66; κεραυνόν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.6; φλόγα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.77, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.668.)]
2 of liquids, dry up, ἡ Μηδικὴ πόα σ. τὸ γάλα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 522b25, compare “Anthologia Graeca” 9.549 (1st c.AD: Antiphilus Epigrammaticus).)]
3 generally and metaphorically, quench, quell, check, κεῖνός γ᾽ οὐκ ἐθέλει σβέσσαι χόλον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.678; ἀνθρώπων σβέσσαι μένος 16.621; ὕβριν 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus (132) cited in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.77, cf. Oracle texts cited in [same work] 8.77, 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 43, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 835e; εἰ μὴ θεῶν τις τήνδε πεῖραν ἔσβεσεν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1057; ὡς φόνῳ σβέσῃ φόνον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 40; ἔσβεσε κύματα νήνεμος αἴθρη 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 778; σ. αὔξην καὶ ἐπιρροήν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 783b; τὸν θυμόν [prev. work] 888a)]; καῦμα (in the bowels) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 54; ὁ βορέας σ. τὴν θερμότητα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 347b4)]; λιθάργυρον ὄξει ἢ οἴνῳ σ. cooling it, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 5.87)]; ὕδατι δίψαν σ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.1349)]; σ. τυραννίδα epigram cited in [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lycurgus” 20; κλέος “Anthologia Graeca” 9.104 (1st c.AD: Alpheus Epigrammaticus); Ἑλλάδα φωνήν [prev. work] 451)]; regard as extinguishable, ταύτας τὰς δυνάμεις [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.4.10.)]
II passive σβέννυμαι (with intransitive tenses of active, see above), to be quenched, go out, of fire, οὐδέ ποτ᾽ ἔσβη πῦρ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.471)]; of inflamed pustules, go down, disappear, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.” (“Sp.”))]; ἰχθύων.. ᾠὰ μετὰ ἁλῶν σβεσθέντα (assuming variant) καὶ ἐποπτηθέντα [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Diphilus Siphnius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.121c)]: metaphorically of men, become extinct, die, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (Anthologia Graeca 7.20 (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus ?))]; of a city,[Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. work] 9.178 (1st c.AD: Antiphilus Epigrammaticus).)]
II.2 of liquids, run dry, γάλα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 587b28; πηγαί “Anthologia Graeca” 9.128; αἷμα 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.49d)]; αἶγες σβεννύμεναι goats which are going off their milk, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 590.)]
II.3 generally, to be quelled or lulled, of wind, οὐδέ ποτ᾽ ἔσβη οὖρος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.182)]; of sound, σβέννυτο θωρήκων ἐνοπή [Refs 1st c.AD+ (3rd-4th c.AD: Tryphiodorus Epicus 10: _metaphorically_, τὸ μάχιμον σβεννύμενον ὑπὸ γήρως 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 8)]; ἐσβέσθη Νίκανδρος his charm is quenched, [Refs (Anthologia Graeca 12.39)]; of an orator, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Epistula ad Pompeium” 4; ἐσβέσθη τὰ φίλτρα “Anthologia Graeca” 7.221, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 1.33, 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 21.1)]; of legal proceedings, to be cancelled, διὰ τὸ ἐσβέσθαι πᾶν σπέρμα δίκης [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“PMonac.” 1.43 (6th c.AD). (I.- 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] zg[uglide]es-, compare ζείναμεν· σβέννυμεν, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)], Lithuanian gèsti 'to be extinguished'.)
[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.66, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 835e, etc.)]; σβεννύω, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.5, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 54, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Igne” 19, etc.)]: imperfect ἐσβέννυον [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 4.21.4:)]future σβέσω App [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“BC” 2.68, (κατα-) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 958, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 633)]; Epic dialect σβέσσω Oracle texts cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.77, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 23.26)]: aorist ἔσβεσα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.293 (tmesis), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1057, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 778 (Lyric poetry))]; Epic dialect infinitive σβέσσαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.621)]; Ionic dialect infinitive κατα-ς βῶσαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 5.39:)]perfect and aorist 2, see below:—middle, future σβήσομαι (ἀπο-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 805c)]: aorist σβέσαντο [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 1.795)]:—passive, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 590)]: future σβεσθήσομαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 7.17)]: aorist ἐσβέσθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.” (“Sp.”), (κατ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.3.8)]; Epic dialect συν-έσβετο [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 2.477, etc.)]: perfect ἔσβεσμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 21.1, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 9.54, etc., (ἀπ-) 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐντὸς παθῶν” 43)]:—besides these, aorist 2 and perfect and pluperfect active are used intransitive, ἔσβην [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.471, (ἀπ-) 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 971, (κατ-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.5)]; imperative σβῆτε (transitive) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus in “Stud.Ital.” 10.123)]; participle ἀπο-σβείς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 4.31:)]perfect ἔσβηκα (ἀπ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.13, (κατ-) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 888:)]pluperfect ἐσβήκει (ἀπ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 218b)]:—quench, put out, used by [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus in the literal sense only in _compound_ κατα-σβέννυμι (which see))]; σ. τὸ καιόμενον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.66; κεραυνόν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.6; φλόγα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.77, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.668.)]
2 of liquids, dry up, ἡ Μηδικὴ πόα σ. τὸ γάλα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 522b25, compare “Anthologia Graeca” 9.549 (1st c.AD: Antiphilus Epigrammaticus).)]
3 generally and metaphorically, quench, quell, check, κεῖνός γ᾽ οὐκ ἐθέλει σβέσσαι χόλον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.678; ἀνθρώπων σβέσσαι μένος 16.621; ὕβριν 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus (132) cited in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.77, cf. Oracle texts cited in [same work] 8.77, 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 43, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 835e; εἰ μὴ θεῶν τις τήνδε πεῖραν ἔσβεσεν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1057; ὡς φόνῳ σβέσῃ φόνον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 40; ἔσβεσε κύματα νήνεμος αἴθρη 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 778; σ. αὔξην καὶ ἐπιρροήν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 783b; τὸν θυμόν [prev. work] 888a)]; καῦμα (in the bowels) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 54; ὁ βορέας σ. τὴν θερμότητα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 347b4)]; λιθάργυρον ὄξει ἢ οἴνῳ σ. cooling it, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 5.87)]; ὕδατι δίψαν σ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.1349)]; σ. τυραννίδα epigram cited in [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lycurgus” 20; κλέος “Anthologia Graeca” 9.104 (1st c.AD: Alpheus Epigrammaticus); Ἑλλάδα φωνήν [prev. work] 451)]; regard as extinguishable, ταύτας τὰς δυνάμεις [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.4.10.)]
II passive σβέννυμαι (with intransitive tenses of active, see above), to be quenched, go out, of fire, οὐδέ ποτ᾽ ἔσβη πῦρ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.471)]; of inflamed pustules, go down, disappear, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.” (“Sp.”))]; ἰχθύων.. ᾠὰ μετὰ ἁλῶν σβεσθέντα (assuming variant) καὶ ἐποπτηθέντα [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Diphilus Siphnius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.121c)]: metaphorically of men, become extinct, die, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (Anthologia Graeca 7.20 (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus ?))]; of a city,[Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. work] 9.178 (1st c.AD: Antiphilus Epigrammaticus).)]
II.2 of liquids, run dry, γάλα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 587b28; πηγαί “Anthologia Graeca” 9.128; αἷμα 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.49d)]; αἶγες σβεννύμεναι goats which are going off their milk, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 590.)]
II.3 generally, to be quelled or lulled, of wind, οὐδέ ποτ᾽ ἔσβη οὖρος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.182)]; of sound, σβέννυτο θωρήκων ἐνοπή [Refs 1st c.AD+ (3rd-4th c.AD: Tryphiodorus Epicus 10: _metaphorically_, τὸ μάχιμον σβεννύμενον ὑπὸ γήρως 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 8)]; ἐσβέσθη Νίκανδρος his charm is quenched, [Refs (Anthologia Graeca 12.39)]; of an orator, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “Epistula ad Pompeium” 4; ἐσβέσθη τὰ φίλτρα “Anthologia Graeca” 7.221, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 1.33, 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor 21.1)]; of legal proceedings, to be cancelled, διὰ τὸ ἐσβέσθαι πᾶν σπέρμα δίκης [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“PMonac.” 1.43 (6th c.AD). (I.- 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] zg[uglide]es-, compare ζείναμεν· σβέννυμεν, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)], Lithuanian gèsti 'to be extinguished'.)