verb
teframō
Strong’sG5077
I reduce to ashes
stem tefr-once in the New Testament1 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.
τεφρόω, -ῶ
(< τέφρα, ashes; Wi 2:3, al.),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5077 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtef-ro'-o
to incinerate, i.e. consume
Fromfrom τέφρα (ashes);
King Jamesturn to ashes.
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
burn to ashes, NT+3rd c.BC+:—middle, Refs 2nd c.BC+:—passive, to be burnt to ashes, Refs 4th c.BC+; to be covered with ashes, Refs 2nd 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
What the New Testament actually uses, first — the whole system this verb is built from is one click further down.
| Form and the Greek behind it | What it is | Usually | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| tefrarantosτεφρώσας | happened · subjectaorist active participle nominative singular masculine | destruction | 1× |
Every form the New Testament uses, in paradigm order. What the system can build beyond them — the whole of this verb, whether the text happens to use it or not — is in the tables below.
Every form the system can build — all 86, by mood, including the ones the New Testament never uses
Statements — indicative mood, no occurrences
| Who person | happening now present | was happening imperfect | will happen future | happened aorist | has happened perfect | had happened pluperfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I 1st person singular | teframō | teframe | teframi | teframa | teframē | teframelē |
| you 2nd person singular | tefrasō | tefrase | tefrasi | tefrasa | tefrasē | tefraselē |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | tefratō | tefrate | tefrati | tefrata | tefratē | tefratelē |
| we 1st person plural | tefranō | tefrane | tefrani | tefrana | tefranē | tefranelē |
| ye 2nd person plural | tefravō | tefrave | tefravi | tefrava | tefravē | tefravelē |
| they 3rd person plural | tefralō | tefrale | tefrali | tefrala | tefralē | tefralelē |
May, might — subjunctive mood, no occurrences
| Who person | happening now present | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|
| I 1st person singular | teframeiō | teframeia | teframeiē |
| you 2nd person singular | tefraseiō | tefraseia | tefraseiē |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | tefrateiō | tefrateia | tefrateiē |
| we 1st person plural | tefraneiō | tefraneia | tefraneiē |
| ye 2nd person plural | tefraveiō | tefraveia | tefraveiē |
| they 3rd person plural | tefraleiō | tefraleia | tefraleiē |
Commands — imperative mood, no occurrences
| Who person | happening now present | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|
| you 2nd person singular | tefrasōr | tefrasar | tefrasēr |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | tefratōr | tefratar | tefratēr |
| ye 2nd person plural | tefravōr | tefravar | tefravēr |
| they 3rd person plural | tefralōr | tefralar | tefralēr |
Wishes — optative mood, no occurrences
| Who person | happening now present | happened aorist |
|---|---|---|
| I 1st person singular | teframoiō | teframoia |
| you 2nd person singular | tefrasoiō | tefrasoia |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | tefratoiō | tefratoia |
| we 1st person plural | tefranoiō | tefranoia |
| ye 2nd person plural | tefravoiō | tefravoia |
| they 3rd person plural | tefraloiō | tefraloia |
The “to …” form — infinitive, no occurrences
| Who is acting voice | happening now present | will happen future | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the subject acts active voice | tefrarō | tefrari | tefrara | tefrarē |
Used as an adjective — participle, 1 occurrence
| Who is acting voice | happening now present | will happen future | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the subject acts active voice | tefrarōntos | tefrarintos | tefrarantos1×τεφρώσας | tefrarēntos |
Each is given in the form it takes as a subject. From there a participle carries the ordinary noun endings, in every case, number and gender — so these four columns are the whole of what the verb contributes.
How every form is built — the slots that make them
tefr 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
tefrarantos“destruction”happened · subjectaorist active participle nominative singular masculine1×
2 Peter 2:6kai polain Sodomeiu kai Gomorrau tefrarantos katastrofa katakrinata, hupodeigmem mellarōnteiu aseboi titharēntos,… cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an …