noun · feminine
anthrakias
Strong’sG439
a heap of burning coals
stem anthraki-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** ἀνθρακιά, -ᾶς, ἡ
(< ἄνθραξ), [in LXX: Si 11:32, IV Mac 9:20*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G439 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidanth-rak-ee-ah'
a bed of burning coals
Fromfrom G440;
King Jamesfire of coals.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Epic dialect ἀνθρᾰκ-ιή, ῆς, ἡ, burning charcoal, hot embers, ἀνθρακιὴν στορέσαιRefs 8th c.BC+; ἀνθρακιᾶς ἄπο a broil hot from the embers, Refs 5th c.BC+; σου τῆς ἀνθρακιᾶς ἀπολαύει warms himself at your fire, Refs 5th c.BC+; Κύπριδος ἀ.Refs 3rd c.BC+
2 black sooty ashes,Refs 1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | anthrakias | anthrakiais |
| object accusative | anthrakian2×ἀνθρακιὰν | anthrakiain |
| direct address vocative | anthrakiar | anthrakiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | anthrakiau | anthrakiaiu |
| to, for dative | anthrakia | anthrakiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
anthrakia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
anthrakian“charcoal fire”objectaccusative singular2×
John 18:18… de tois doulois kai tois hupēretois anthrakian poiarēntois, hoti psuchem ate, kai thermainole; …… and officers were standing around a charcoal fire they had made to keep warm …
John 21:9… oun apobainala eis tan gēan blepalō anthrakian keiorōntan kai opsariem epikeiorōntem kai arton.When they landed, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish on it, and …