noun · feminine
puras
Strong’sG4443
a fire
stem pur-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.
** πυρά, -ᾶς, ἡ
(< πῦρ), [in LXX: Jth 7:5, Wi 17:6, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4443 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpoo-rah'
a fire (concretely)
Fromfrom G4442;
King Jamesfire.
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 and Ionic dialect πῠρή, ῆς, ἡ, (πῦρ) funeral-pyre, πυραὶ νεκύων καίοντο θαμειαί Refs 8th c.BC+; πυρὴν νῆσαι, συννῆσαι, to raise one, Refs 5th c.BC+
b mound raised on the place of the pyre, tumulus, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 altar for burnt sacrifice, Refs 5th c.BC+; fire burning thereon, uncertain reading in Refs 5th c.BC+
3 burning mass,Refs 1st c.BC+; λαμπάδων π. a mass of burning torches, Refs 1st c.BC+
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 | puras | purais |
| object accusative | puran2×πυρὰν | purain |
| direct address vocative | purar | purair |
| of, belonging to genitive | purau | puraiu |
| to, for dative | pura | purai |
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
pura 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
puran“fire”objectaccusative singular2×
Acts 28:2… tan tucharantan filanthrōpian ni, haptarantois gar puran proslabela pantoin nin dia ton hueton …… us extraordinary kindness. They kindled a fire and welcomed all of us because …
Acts 28:3… tinem plēthem kai epititharantou epi tan puran, echidnas apo tau thermau exercharantas kathaptata …… as he laid them on the fire, a viper, driven out by the …