noun · masculine
anthrakos
Strong’sG440
a coal
stem anthrak-once 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.
ἄνθραξ, -ακος, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for גַּחֶלֶת;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G440 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidanth'-rax
a live coal
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamescoal of fire.
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
charcoal, Refs 4th c.BC+: mostly in plural ἄνθρακεςRefs 5th c.BC+; their vapour produced stupor, Refs 4th c.BC+ of a glutton, Refs 3rd c.BC+
2 coal, οἷς καὶ οἱ χαλκεῖς χρῶνταιRefs 4th c.BC+; ἐπὶ ἀνθράκων μαλακῶν on a slow fire, Refs 1st c.AD+
II a precious stone of dark-red colour, including the carbuncle, ruby, and garnet LXX+4th c.BC+
II.2 hence, carbuncle, malignant pustule (accusative to some, small-pox), Refs 5th c.BC+
III ={ἰσάτις}, woad, Refs
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 | anthrakos | anthrakois |
| object accusative | anthrakon | anthrakoin1×ἄνθρακας |
| direct address vocative | anthrakor | anthrakoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | anthrakou | anthrakoiu |
| to, for dative | anthrako | anthrakoi |
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
anthrako 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
anthrakoin“coals”objectaccusative plural1×
Romans 12:20… dipsateiō, potizasōr auton; houtem gar poiarōntos anthrakoin pureu sōreuasi epi tan kefalan autou.… so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head.”