adjective
purros
Strong’sG4450
red, fire-colored
stem purr-2 times in the New Testament1 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.
πυρρός, -ά, -όν
(< πῦρ), [in LXX for אֱדֹם;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4450 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpoor-hros'
fire-like, i.e. (specially), flame- colored
Fromfrom G4442;
King Jamesred.
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
(Ionic dialect ή), όν, but Trag. and Doric dialect πυρσός, ή (Doric dialect ά), όν, Refs 5th c.BC+; rare in Prose, Refs 1st c.AD+: (πῦρ):— flame-coloured, yellowish-red (πυρρὸν ξανθοῦ τε καὶ φαιοῦ κράσει γίγνεται Refs 5th c.BC+. the yolk of an egg, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ λευκότης γίγνεται πυρρή Refs 5th c.BC+ of sediment in urine, Refs
2 especially of persons with red hair, Refs 6th c.BC+; of the colour of the first beard, γενειάς A.[same place]; γένυες Refs 5th c.BC+; [θρίξ] Refs 3rd c.BC+
3 generally, tawny, λέων NT+5th c.BC+; τὰ χρώματα τῶν κυνῶν Refs 5th c.BC+
4 of more positive colour, red, χλανίς LXX+5th c.BC+; τὸ π. redness, Refs 5th c.BC+ —_Epic dialect_ _comparative_ (for πυρρότερα), πῠρώτερα φοινίσσεσθαι to be of a brighter red, Refs 4th c.BC+
5 blushing, Refs 5th c.BC+; also κύων.. πύρσ᾽ ἔχουσα δέργματα glaring with bloodshot eyes, Refs 5th c.BC+
II paroxytone Πύρρος, ὁ, “Pyrrhus”, as proper name; also Πύρϝος, name of a horse, Refs 6th 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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | purros2×πυρρός | purras | purrem | purrois | purrais | purreim |
| object accusative | purron | purran | purroin | purrain | ||
| direct address vocative | purror | purrar | purroir | purrair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | purrou | purrau | purreu | purroiu | purraiu | purreiu |
| to, for dative | purro | purra | purre | purroi | purrai | purrei |
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
purr 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
purros“red”subjectnominative singular2×
Revelation 6:4“fiery red”kai exerchata allosos hippos purros, kai to kathorōnto epi auton dōita …Then another horse went forth. It was bright red, and its rider was granted permission to take away peace from the earth and to make …
Revelation 12:3… to ourano, kai idou drakontos megos purros, echarōntos kefalain hepta kai kerateim deka …… sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns …