asbestem

Strong’sG762

inextinguishable, unquenchable

stem asbest-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 26 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.

ἄ-σβεστος, -ον

(< σβέννυμι), [in LXX for נפח לֹא, Jb 20:26 א3 A (ἄκαυστον, א2 B)*;]

unquenched, unquenchable: πῦρ, Mt 3:12, Mk 9:43, Lk 3:17.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G762 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidas'-bes-tos

not extinguished, i.e. (by implication) perpetual

Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G4570;

King Jamesnot to be quenched, unquenchable.

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

ἄσβεστος, ον,
also η, ον Refs 8th c.BC+:— unquenchable, inextinguishable, φλόξRefs 8th c.BC+ [same place]; not quenched, πῦρ ἄ.Refs 8th c.BC+; ἄ. πόρος ὠκεανοῦ ocean's ceaseless flow, Refs 4th c.BC+; πῦρ, of hell, NT
II as substantive, ἄσβεστος (i.e. τίτανος), ἡ, unslaked lime, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.2 a mineral or gem, Refs 1st c.AD+. ἀσβεστώδης· tofus, 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.

unquenchable3×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	asbestos	asbestas	asbestem1×ἄσβεστον	asbestois	asbestais	asbesteim
object accusative	asbeston	asbestan		asbestoin	asbestain
direct address vocative	asbestor	asbestar		asbestoir	asbestair
of, belonging to genitive	asbestou	asbestau	asbesteu	asbestoiu	asbestaiu	asbesteiu
to, for dative	asbesto	asbesta	asbeste2×ἀσβέστῳ	asbestoi	asbestai	asbestei

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

asbeststem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

asbest 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.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

asbestem“unquenchable”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Mark 9:43… tan geennan, eis tem purem tem asbestem.… and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.

asbeste“unquenchable”to, fordative singular2×

Matthew 3:12… apothēkan, tem de achurem katakaiati pure asbeste.… will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Luke 3:17… autou, tem de achurem katakaiati pure asbeste.… will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”